Canadian
Americanadjective
noun
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Canadians
plural
adjective
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Origin of Canadian
First recorded in 1560–70; Canad(a) + -ian; compare French canadien
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Canadian housing starts picked up last month though the pace remains soft as the broader market shows signs of cooling into the end of the year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
To begin, we are in some mountainous slice of small-town Pacific Northwest, where the Canadian tax breaks call American producers across the 49th parallel and the landscape presses in from all sides.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Wainwright, about 130 miles east of Edmonton, Alberta's capital, is one of the main bases used by the Canadian military for live-fire training exercises, and it houses troops from Canada and allied countries.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Excluding gasoline, Canadian inflation cooled to 2.2% in September from 2.4% the month before.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
The first was a visiting scientist who never returned, and the second was a Canadian named John who scattered things—ties, coins, socks, breath mints—around any room he entered.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
"Military and civilian crews fought this fire throughout the night in some of the worst conditions imaginable, risking their lives to protect their fellow Canadians," Carney said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
That marks a sixth consecutive monthly rise in U.S. travel for Canadians.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Age-related macular degeneration alone affects approximately 2.5 million Canadians, highlighting the potential importance of understanding the processes that keep the retina healthy.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
Wednesday's announcement means that Canadians with mental illness as their sole condition will not be able to access assisted dying by March 2027 as previously planned.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
The Canadians take a broader view, and some of the Europeans have gone farthest of all to develop the science of “forest hygiene” to an amazing extent.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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