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- noun Plural form of
Anglo-Saxon .
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Examples
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England was settled in the fifth century by German tribes usually called Anglo-Saxons.
The Early Middle Ages 500-1000 Robert Brentano 1964
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Germany and run away with what his compatriots like to disparagingly call the "Anglo-Saxons".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011
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Germany and run away with what his compatriots like to disparagingly call the "Anglo-Saxons".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011
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One key move in the allocations was the withdrawal of U.S. and UK investors -- the so-called Anglo-Saxons -- from crisis-hit euro zone debt.
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At moments like this, even "Anglo-Saxons" have doubts about the system, but much of the world doesn't like Anglo-Saxon capitalism even when it works.
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At moments like this, even "Anglo-Saxons" have doubts about the system; but much of the world doesn't like Anglo-Saxon capitalism even when it works.
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Whereas Louis Prima chose the black street musicians of New Orleans as his role models, Sinatra idolized the symbols of Caucasian performance of his day: the Protestant Anglo-Saxons Bing Crosby, a descendant of Mayflower pilgrims who grew up in Washington State, and Rudy Vallee, native of Maine and Yale graduate whose first band was called “the Connecticut Yankees.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Scoring lowest were the industrious, restrained, and “superior” Anglo-Saxons.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Indeed, some of his beliefs later made him an embarrassment to the movement, particularly his belief in Anglo-Israelism, which claimed that Anglo-Saxons were descended from the ten lost tribes of Israel.
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Indeed, some of his beliefs later made him an embarrassment to the movement, particularly his belief in Anglo-Israelism, which claimed that Anglo-Saxons were descended from the ten lost tribes of Israel.
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