as in native
a usually longtime resident of a locality visitors to the Florida Keys soon learn that "conch" is a term for a localite as well as a mollusk

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Recent Examples of localite Our list of hard studying localites include, from Beachwood, Celia Edelstein and Dorian Miller. Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 26 Jan. 2018
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Noun
  • Standing in front of more than 100,000 people packed into Ann Arbor’s Michigan Stadium, the Oklahoma native wasn’t just playing the biggest show of his career.
    Brian McCollum, Freep.com, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Soderstrom, the 23-year-old Turlock native, in his first full Major League season has 25 home runs and 93 RBIs while switching from playing catcher and first base to left field full-time.
    Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 27 Sep. 2025
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  • When the federal government reached an agreement with Alabama officials last October to address destructive flooding in the predominantly Black Shiloh community, residents thought their calls for help had finally been answered.
    Maia Rosenfeld, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Her love of the Big Apple is one Spike, a lifelong Brooklyn resident, also shares.
    Collette Reitz, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Localite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/localite. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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