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North American

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adjective

  1. of or relating to North America or its inhabitants

"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

noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of North America

"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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Champagne is also entering bilateral talks with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday afternoon as the North American neighbors remain in a trade war.

From Barron's Sep. 1, 2026

North American Blue Energy Partners, led by Alejandro Betancourt, plans to dispatch more than 50 drilling rigs to the country over the next few years in an effort to turbocharge Venezuela’s crude production.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

But the New York Times, citing people familiar, reports that it’s North American Blue Energy Partners, Venezuela’s second-largest private oil producer.

From Slate Aug. 31, 2026

But Carney directly invoked the darker, flintier aspects of North American history when he was asked on Aug. 22 whether his country was now at war.

From Salon Aug. 31, 2026

English, North American, French, and Dutch ships competed to supply the Caribbean plantations and buy their sugar.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson

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