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noun

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Recent Examples of nonnative
Adjective
The Erie Canal and its adjacent feeder rivers and reservoirs likely enabled two voracious nonnative species, the Atlantic sea lamprey and alewife, to enter the Great Lakes ecosystem. Christine Keiner, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025 The eel, along with other invasive species, are gaining more of a foothold in the southeastern United States, causing concern among resource and wildlife managers, along with state and local agencies tasked with minimizing adverse effects of nonnative plants and animals. Wesley Bruer, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025 Some states began killing the nonnative swans over the animal welfare groups’ objections. Calmatters, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025 Four nonnative tick species have been identified in the state in recent years. Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonnative
Adjective
  • Whether or not Takaichi's administration is as tough on immigration issues as her campaign rhetoric suggests, some observers warn that failing to actively invest in and integrate foreign nationals into society will have lasting harm on Asia’s second-largest economy.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Chen kept ledgers of bribes, according to the indictment, and in 2019 a $3 million yacht was bought for a senior official in an unnamed foreign government.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Raised by strangers due to his mother’s drug addiction, Guy has also struggled much of his life with hearing voices.
    Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Inside, many near-strangers shared a salsa or bachata song.
    Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Social media has also been flooded with racist and xenophobic comments, especially about Indians, amid fears that an influx of foreigners could erode national identity in China, where the population has fallen for the past three consecutive years.
    Peter Guo, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Indonesia’s last executions, of a citizen and three foreigners, were carried out in July 2016.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • After all, the human and the alien in Lanthimos’s films have always been divided by the most porous of membranes.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The two buffoons shave her head, chain her in the basement of a messy remote home and then accuse her of being an alien.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Nonnative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonnative. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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