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home-grown

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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It’s a rare game of home-grown players representing their communities absent of transfer students.

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It was India's first bunch of home-grown architects - pivotal figures like Chimanlal Master, Laxman Vishnu Sathe and Gopalji Mulji Bhuta - who integrated it into their designs after returning home with degrees from the Royal Institute of British Architects in London.

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In some ways, the 2-degree communication debacle is a home-grown problem for the United States.

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It’s rare these days for a Power Four roster to be that home-grown.

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"The threat is now home-grown and a lot younger. It feeds on friendships and social networks of the like-minded, without there ever necessarily being people having to give and obey orders," he said.

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