Sample Sentences for
indigenous
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    the Ainu are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan.
    indigenous = of local origin
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    ...no public health officer could free them from congenital defects, various worms, and the diseases indigenous to filthy surroundings.  (source)
    indigenous = commonly found (in a location)
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    I took great interest in the cultures of indigenous people.†  (source)
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    The driver had the look of an indigenous South American—a Bolivian, maybe Peruvian.†  (source)
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    The problem with Indigenous art in general is that it's stuck in the past.†  (source)
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    From there, we loaded onto three indigenous trucks.†  (source)
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    The most useful of this planet's indigenous fauna.†  (source)
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    For example, nobody even suspected the dilophosaurs were poisonous until they were observed hunting indigenous rats on the island—biting the rodents and then stepping back, to wait for them to die.†  (source)
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    Anyway, I have to read about the effects of smallpox on indigenous populations tonight, so I can't really solve The Case of the Fugitive Billionaire.†  (source)
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    After a month of supporting this MEDCAP/VETCAP (Medical Civic Action Program / Veterinarian Civic Action Program) mission, winning the hearts and minds of the indigenous population, the task unit was ordered to relocate.†  (source)
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    As I have said elsewhere, there was little that was truly original with or indigenous to Gilead: its genius was synthesis.†  (source)
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    Anatole never misses one, because his mind is that quick, and also I think the indigenous names mean more to him.†  (source)
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    At first my role was to provide Web ingenuity to help the colonists do what they do best-destroy truly indigenous life.†  (source)
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