natives

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The disinterested universe that serves as backdrop to Mr. Diaz’s world imposes no small amount of irony on Magellan’s campaign to convert the natives.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

“They’re 14-29 now, so they’re digital natives, very comfortable with being connected to people by phone,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

Younger people — so-called digital natives — don’t realize how much this rubbish is a product of the internet.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026

Part of this is in the rich tradition of European reporters sojourning in the United States who find casual grotesques about Americans far more lucrative and less taxing than actually trying to meet the natives.

From Slate • Mar. 10, 2026

It seems implausible that the exchange could have been entirely one-way— that the natives have had little or no long-lasting impact on the newcomers.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann