natives

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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

Hill, 65, and her husband, Fred, 82, are natives of Pasadena and moved to their house five years ago.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2026

Even my fellow natives are poking fun at that move, widely joking that the new home of the Chiefs might be named after a famous KCK fast-food joint: Go Chicken Go Stadium.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

Having expected childlike natives, empty vessels waiting to be filled by the Word, the Franciscans instead found themselves fencing with skilled rhetoricians, proud of their intellectual traditions.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann