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countryman

[kuhn-tree-muhn] / ˈkʌn tri mən /
NOUN
person from one's country
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Rushing said he already had checked with Lee’s South Korean countryman, Dodgers infielder Hyeseong Kim.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

Dybala's future in Rome has been in question after the Argentina international's difficult first season under Gasperini, which has been marked by familiar injury problems and the rise of countryman Matias Soule.

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

Xavi Simons has not gone out of his way to nail his fellow countryman but it is something so dangerous to do, absolutely a red card.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2025

Mendonça Filho has seen nearly everything his accomplished countryman has made, but knew there was something still to be tapped.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

But that it was our countryman Roger Bacon who first discovered the verticity of it, or its property of pointing towards the pole, and this about 400 years since.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton



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