natives

Example Sentences

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There they were taken in by the natives of the village of Ngarchelong, relying on them for food and shelter.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 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

Midia Research senior analyst Hanna Kahlert said while it was a big announcement, it was "perhaps not a surprising one" - with the platform becoming "almost infrastructural for digital natives".

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026

When a Spanish priest saw how cruelly the natives were treated and how rapidly they were dying, he recommended a solution.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis