midwesterner
Britishnoun
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In addition to serving as governor, Maddow noted that Walz, the wholesome midwesterner, has also been a long-term congressman, high school coach, football coach, and a decades-long soldier.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2024
“In a city of towering egos, Hughes was a midwesterner with a modest demeanor and a sly wit,” a biographer, Bruce L.R.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 2023
A young midwesterner and an L.A. club promoter connect on the night of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2018
The film's principal figure is not Gatsby but Nick Carraway, a classic unreliable narrator, aged 30 in that summer of 1922, a midwesterner educated at Yale alongside Tom Buchanan and Daisy's second cousin.
From The Guardian ● May 18, 2013
I was a midwesterner: I knew the weather could ruin everything.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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