native
Example Sentences
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A native Vermonter, she lives in New York with her husband and dog.
“Dunking is an art and it’s kind of hard to come up with new stuff,” said Johnson, an Oakland native who leaped over Bay Area rapper E-40 on his first dunk.
From Los Angeles Times
The director said that in his native Brazil, "cinema would not exist if it were not for public funding".
From Barron's
Petar, a Bosnian model and creative, works at a creative agency in the fashion sector, while Lex, a Bay Area native, is a union costume designer and stylist.
From Los Angeles Times
It was that final requirement that Delka, a native Texas, was seeking to fulfill when she moved to the island.
From Los Angeles Times
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