go native

Example Sentences

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But dogs that go native make bad guards, hunting companions, and friends.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 29, 2020

Some have tried; most get lost or go native in the maze.

From Slate • Jul. 17, 2020

In recent years, with U.S.-Russia ties increasingly frosty, the fast food chain has pursued a different strategy: go native.

From Reuters • Feb. 2, 2017

Even some of the Foreign Office's top mandarins accept that ambassadors do on occasion go native, spending more time empathising with their host country than championing the interests of Britain.

From BBC • May 14, 2013

Ten minutes later we were engaged in a brisk debate in which the question before the house was, stated boldly, Should we or should we not "go native?"

From The Cruise of the Kawa by Chappell, George S. (George Shepard)