natives

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The disinterested universe that serves as backdrop to Mr. Diaz’s world imposes no small amount of irony on Magellan’s campaign to convert the natives.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 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

As Europeans took over more and more of their land, the natives were forced onto reservations, and then over time most of their reservation land was taken from them.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone