mainlander
AmericanEtymology
Origin of mainlander
Example Sentences
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I visit often enough to feel a sense of stewardship, yet my mainlander status keeps the islands just unfamiliar enough to never lose their getaway feeling.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2023
All this island love for a mainlander — a white kid from Orange County, no less — but one who meshed remarkably well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2021
A Taiwanese woman shared her experience working in Shanghai, trying to fit in while maintaining her identity and dealing with not being understood by her mainlander colleagues.
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2021
As a mainlander who lives overseas, these accounts were shocking to me.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2019
Coupled with a toothy grin, the driver's gesture reveals a touch of mainlander frustration but is tempered with a protective dose of islander fatalism.
From Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Sam Williams
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