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a usually longtime resident of a locality
few locals seem to patronize the city's touristy restaurants, leaving them to diners who prefer atmosphere over food
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Recent Examples of local
Erin Strout, Outside Online, 11 Nov. 2024
Expected to be open by October 2025, Ainsley’s Spout House will feature local craft beers and wine from the Santa Cruz Mountains, including Ainsley’s pinot noir with grapes grown and bottled by Alan Ainsley Hicks, great-grandson of John Colpitts (JC) Ainsley.
—Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
Freddie Clayton, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2024
Its mystery has been gradually unveiled, though, partly through word of mouth and the initiatives of locals and entrepreneurs who have settled in the area (artists, premium oil producers, expert astronomers, writers, and the like).
—Sarah James, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Nov. 2024
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More than a third of Sedona’s homes have become short-term rentals, and the city government and other local agencies have become consumed with how to manage the influx of visitors—and how to infuse education on respectful public land use.
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What began as violent clashes between locals and Israeli soccer fans has spiraled into a clash of identities in the Netherlands, leaving many feeling their place in society is precarious, their belonging conditional, and their voices drowned out in a tide of blame.
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Choice, which is the most popular plan, includes more than 105 channels, regional sports networks, and everything included in Entertainment.Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 28 Nov. 2024
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Rose, who is also Paramount Global regional lead, said her American owners recognize this and are prepared to invest more in the network next year.Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 Nov. 2024
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The material obtained from Combs’ cell was photographed by a Bureau of Prisons investigator in a jail-wide search for inmate contraband.Dominic Patten, Deadline, 22 Nov. 2024
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Shiga toxin can penetrate and kill cells, causing tissue damage.Sam Tupper, CNN, 20 Nov. 2024
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In 1974, entrepreneur Mariano Martinez, a Dallas native, adapted a Slurpee machine to make alluring concoctions that could be dispensed without the help of a bartender.Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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Behind its bar is beverage manager Philip Bischoff, a Berlin native who started experimenting with mixology at the age of 23.Jenn Rice, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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Join 3 others in the comments View Comments After Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma criticized China’s banks and financial regulators at a speech in November 2020, Ant Group, a financial affiliate of Alibaba also founded by Ma, was forced to pull its $37 billion IPO at the last minute.Juliana Liu, CNN, 22 Nov. 2024
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Symone Woolridge, who left Milwaukee's WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) Nov. 8, will join Minneapolis Fox affiliate KMSP-TV in December, anchoring the station's 5, 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. newscasts.Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2024
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Volkov had offered as proof of authenticity the fact that the composer had signed one page of each chapter.Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
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Divided into five chapters from the 1930s through to the 1970s, Parkinson’s work for Vogue magazine captures the great beauties of the day chronicling the changing face of fashion in each era.Emma Baxter-Wright, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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“Local.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/local. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.
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