as in citizens
a person living in or originally from the same country as another
during the time he was an American in Paris he felt a special kinship with his fellow landsmen
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Noun
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That includes veterans’ care, rural healthcare access, infrastructure that actually serves communities, securing supply chains, reducing prescription drug costs through transparency and competition, and reforming areas of the federal bureaucracy that waste money and frustrate citizens.—
Kevin Fixler
May 3,
Idaho Statesman,
3 May 2026 -
And the data shows that this disproportionately impacts black and brown citizens.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
3 May 2026
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While legal conservatives were developing theories of enhanced executive power, their political compatriots gained a congressional majority for the first time in decades.—
Gregg Nunziata,
The Atlantic,
27 Apr. 2026
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Rasmus Køstner left behind his Danish compatriots to step in as Brazil’s new flight controller.—
Andrew Rice,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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The air campaign was short, Libyan leader and longtime thorn in the side of Washington Moammar Gadhafi was dead within eight months – killed by his own countrymen.—
Andrew Latham,
The Conversation,
22 Apr. 2026
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This is the first time in 25 years that Wrexham have been staring down at all their fellow countrymen in the three divisions of the EFL.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
22 Apr. 2026
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“Landsmen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/landsmen. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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