hail from
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Both of them hail from within 25 miles of Fenway Park, leaving the Red Sox to wonder how they let these two locals end up in pinstripes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Bellingham and Rogers both hail from the West Midlands, and at the time, Kitson described them as "two star boys" from the "heart of the Black Country".
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
The accents there are as apt to hail from the South Shore of Long Island as from South Carolina.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
And then there are the Sherpas — Namgyal and his wife, Pasang, a former Buddhist nun, who hail from the Khumbu region of Nepal and live on the property with Higdon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
Many of our most popular American children’s songs hail from centuries of ballads, hymns, popular and folk music of early New Englanders, Scottish, and English settlers inhabiting Appalachia, and African and European descendants.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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