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

As digital natives, we’ve grown up knowing the internet can be dangerous, yet this danger has always felt distant—something that happened to other people.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

There have been deer in mainland Britain for thousands of years but only two of the now six species that live here are natives, namely red and roe deer.

From BBC • Dec. 25, 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