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home-grown

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adjective

  1. (esp of fruit and vegetables) produced in one's own country, district, estate, or garden

"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, she said that the "first key consideration was energy security", as the Middle East crisis reinforces the importance of "home-grown energy".

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

The Adam Smith Institute also finds that Britain is creating fewer home-grown millionaires.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

For Americans more accustomed to their home-grown version of football, Mullin made a comparison to highlight interest in the global extravaganza.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

It is a clean energy option that provides enormous home-grown energy that is, and will be, needed to power vibrant economies of the future.

From Salon ● May 21, 2026

Before long, Handel’s English-language oratorios even featured home-grown English singer-soloists, too, fulfilling contemporary actor-playwright and Poet Laureate Colley Cibber’s aspiration to ‘reconcile Musick to the English Tongue’.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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