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foreign-born

[fawr-in-bawrn, for-]

adjective

  1. born in a country other than that in which one resides.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of foreign-born1

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60
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Once a hub for blue-collar white families, Huntington Park is now 97% Latino, with 89% of households speaking a language other than English and 47% of residents foreign-born, according to the Census.

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Mamdani’s personal immigrant history, as the article observes, was clearly an advantage in a city where about 40 percent of residents are foreign-born.

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The British and Irish Lions players have rallied around their foreign-born team-mates, after Australia coach Joe Schmidt highlighted the ancestry of some of the tourists' squad.

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They cast their opponents as dangerous foreign-born criminals and their feckless enablers in the Democratic Party and mainstream media.

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In neighborhoods with large populations of foreign-born people across the region, every commute, trip to the grocery store or school drop-off has come to represent another potential final moment in lives built in this country.

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