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- noun Plural form of
Easterner .
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Examples
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The west is the last land to be tamed, shrugging off the trappings of civilization until bound with barbed wire and girdled by railroads carting in Easterners with their laws and fancy hats and buffalo rifles that felled gazelle and bison alike.
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The Cherokee call the Delawares Anakwan′'kĭ, in the singular Akwan′'kĭ, a derivative formed according to usual Cherokee phonetic modification from Wapanaq′kĭ, "Easterners," the generic name by which the Delawares and their nearest kindred call themselves.
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The manipulations on humans (now called "Easterners") created Dragaerans (which some humans call "elfs," and who call themselves "humans"), who are ridiculously long-lived and have a semi-typical Byzantine political structure of Houses and a not-precisely-typical fantasy Empire.
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They find themselves beyond their world; Morrilan and Aleira are being held by the Jenoine, a race like the Titans, so powerful, they are like unto gods, and like them they helped to shape the world, creating the Dragearian races (31 originally, now reduced to 17) by tampering with the genetics of "Easterners" (humans) and mixing them with the genetics of the totem animal of each house, so a Dzur really does have a link to the panther like creature, the dzur.
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Inhofe: ‘I believe in racial and ethnic profiling’ because ‘all terrorists are Muslims or Middle Easterners.’
Think Progress » Brown wins Massachusetts special election; Coakley concedes. 2010
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Inhofe: ‘I believe in racial and ethnic profiling’ because ‘all terrorists are Muslims or Middle Easterners.’
Think Progress » Brown wins Massachusetts special election; Coakley concedes. 2010
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Just remember, seeing that flag doesn't mean we're all the same, just like seeing a cross doesn't mean all Christians are the same, or seeing a turban doesn't mean all Middle Easterners are the same.
Friday Pix isisinvinyl 2009
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Inhofe: ‘I believe in racial and ethnic profiling’ because ‘all terrorists are Muslims or Middle Easterners.’
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That petition was a specific one to unblock three websites, and it came from Middle Easterners in general as opposed to Kurds, but also Turks and Iranians.
Global Voices in English » Kurdistance: Launching the Arab Association for Kurdish Rights 2009
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Inhofe: ‘I believe in racial and ethnic profiling’ because ‘all terrorists are Muslims or Middle Easterners.’
Think Progress » Brown wins Massachusetts special election; Coakley concedes. 2010
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