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native

[ney-tiv] / ˈneɪ tɪv /




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She wanted to learn more about native plants, so she took a garden design class at the Theodore Payne Foundation for Native Plants in Sun Valley.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Within hours, Dedic, a businessman living in Ealing, had left the UK on the Eurostar and returned to his native country of Bosnia.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Before the war, he ran an art foundation in his native region of Transcarpathia in western Ukraine.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

A native of Germany, Aschenbrenner graduated from Columbia University as the 2021 class valedictorian and briefly worked as a researcher at OpenAI.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

“Is he a naturalized American citizen or native born?”

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix




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