local

Example Sentences

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Ruby talked to the local police, then spoke to the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI.

From Salon

He also quipped: "I've compiled everyone who works at my local takeaway pizza place into a book. It's my Domino's Who's Who."

From BBC

Greenland is home to 57,000 people, and has historically relied on foreign workers to develop mining projects due to a lack of local know-how.

From Barron's

The local conditions at the time each planet finishes forming determine whether it becomes gas rich or remains rocky.

From Science Daily

Often described as India's first English-language feature, Annie occupies a singular place in the country's cinema history: local in texture yet cosmopolitan in voice; modest in scale yet exacting in its writing.

From BBC