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

‘It’s really been a joy to reunite the soil with the plants that belong here,’ Christopher Smee says of removing his lawn and planting California natives.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 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

Their work fed a tsunami of inquiry into the interactions between natives and newcomers in the era when they faced each other as relative equals.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann