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Greenlander

British  
/ ˈɡriːnləndə /

noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of Greenland

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Instead, the Vances visited Pituffik Space Base, where American service members work together with Canadian, Danish and Greenlander allies.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2025

Another young Greenlander from Nuuk, Isak Finn, says he won’t miss having to change plans at Kangerlussuaq.

From BBC • Oct. 20, 2024

“When the long Darkness spreads itself over the country, many hidden things are revealed, and men’s thoughts travel along devious paths,” a west Greenlander told the explorer Knud Rasmussen sometime around 1904.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 17, 2016

Dr. Willerslev and his colleagues extracted DNA from the hair and used powerful new methods to reconstruct the genome of the Greenlander.

From New York Times • May 16, 2016

A big nose, a big belly, blinking eyes, an enormous mouth, hair on end, the arm of a chimpanzee, and the legs of a Greenlander.

From The Grip of Desire by France, Hector

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