Canadian
Americanadjective
noun
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Canadians
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adjective
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Etymology
Origin of Canadian
First recorded in 1560–70; Canad(a) + -ian; compare French canadien
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By the end of the decade, at least half of the EVs imported would be required to have a price of $35,000 Canadian dollars, equivalent to roughly $24,500 in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
This is the holding company of the Westons - a wealthy and retail-steeped Canadian family who used to own Selfridges and currently own several large retailers across the Atlantic.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Anne Carson, the Canadian poet, essayist, professor of classics and translator, has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in literature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Earlier this week, the prizes for medicine, physics, chemistry and literature were announced in Stockholm, with the latter going to Canadian poet Anne Carson on Thursday for her modern twists on Greek mythology and antiquity.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Rejected for his diminutive stature, he sequestered himself in the Canadian wilderness, “a-huntin’ and a-fishin’.”
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
Polls suggest the majority of Canadians support access, external to medically assisted death but that support falls it comes to patients with mental illness alone.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 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 continued increase in prices hints at inflation risk for Canadians at a time when the central bank is wary of the spike in energy costs this year passing through more broadly into higher prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Miriam Levin-Gold likes Prime Minister Mark Carney's idea of Canadians being able to live and work in the European Union under proposed closer ties with the trade bloc.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Here in Maine a great many were French Canadians who came over the border for the harvest season.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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