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  • noun Plural form of Westerner.

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Examples

  • And British Muslims are "Westerners" - or is that a code word ?

    He's At It Again Laban 2003

  • And British Muslims are "Westerners" - or is that a code word ?

    Archive 2003-12-21 Laban 2003

  • And British Muslims are "Westerners" - or is that a code word ?

    December 21, 2003 Laban 2003

  • But the key simple notion to most Westerners is that there is something vast out there that is greater than, or includes, the immediately perceivable, mundane setup.

    Another Look 2009

  • The greatest terror of postmodern Westerners is “confrontation.”

    The Peace Of The Grave « Tai-Chi Policy 2008

  • Increased sympathy and activism by certain Westerners toward Palestinians in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the years of the Oslo Peace Accords and Second Intifada have led to the wearing of keffiyehs as a sign of their solidarity with Palestine and the Palestinian people -

    Archive 2008-01-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • OBL gets all upset about some cartoons while at same time he calls Westerners Infidels and wants to kill us.

    After Danish Cartoons, Dutch Film Sparks More Worries - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • While we entitled Westerners get to distract ourselves with distant and abstract creations like "global warming" and "subprime mortgage crisis," real human beings like Mr. Shin live and die daily in fear, pain and horror.

    North Korean's Sad Story Provokes New Perspective 2007

  • The attention span of most Westerners is short and, without periodic external stimulus, they quickly lose interest.

    Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship ��� 1 Cultural Considerations 2000

  • A tactic favored by the evangelical movement is finding Christians from the Arab world who abandoned their traditional churches (usually as a result of previous proselytizing by Westerners from the English-speaking world) and adopted one form or another of Western Protestantism.

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2010

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