Native States
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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The researchers also found that on removal of stress, refolding of the partially unfolded intermediates was observed, suggesting regaining of their native states.
From Science Daily • May 30, 2024
Some of the new candidates are District women such as Moser, who, steeped in the politics of the Barack Obama era, are returning to their native states to run.
From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2017
Pathogenic amyloid sequences are not in their native states when they form amyloid fibrils and, because they change conformation to reach the amyloid state, probably pass outside of their normal physiological milieu.
From Nature • Nov. 8, 2016
A South Dakota law can bar needy outsiders from ever collecting welfare; in Massachusetts they can be deported to their native states.
From Time Magazine Archive
European conquest of the remaining native states of Central America and northern South America followed during the 16th and 17th centuries.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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