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native

adjective as in domestic; not foreign

noun as in person born where they reside

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After last season, Adem Bona headed for the NBA; Kenneth Nwuba ran out of eligibility; Will McClendon, Jan Vide and Berke Buyuktuncel transferred to other schools and Ilane Fibleuil joined a team in his native France.

Sierra Club founder John Muir rhapsodized about the purity of wilderness, supporting the push to protect Yosemite’s lands from the “dirty” influence of the native tribes who inhabited it.

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Lennox, a Belfast native who previously worked on the Troubles-themed coming of age comedy “Derry Girls,” played an essential role in setting its tone which, though grim, is also inflected with dark humor.

Jurado said she wants to help Latino residents fight the gentrification that radically transformed her native Highland Park and has crept into Boyle Heights over the past decade.

“We go out for breakfast,” the Connecticut native says.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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