natives

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‘It’s really been a joy to reunite the soil with the plants that belong here,’ Christopher Smee says of removing his lawn and planting California natives.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

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

Midia Research senior analyst Hanna Kahlert said while it was a big announcement, it was "perhaps not a surprising one" - with the platform becoming "almost infrastructural for digital natives".

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026

That tickled him, and he said, “In another country I may tell you other lies. But I thought you were forbidden to teach your mind-science to...the natives, until we join the Ekumen.”

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin