Definitions
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- noun A native or inhabitant of the British
Midlands . - noun A native or inhabitant of the city of Midland,
Texas ,USA .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then there was Jones, the plain-talking Midlander who took a more robust approach when the organisation's relationship with the Blair government soured.
John Cridland of the CBI: 'There is a sense of urgency about making Plan A work' 2011
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Fellow Midlander and fellow Denim fan and all-round nice guy Jason aka Sweetbeats has an entertaining blog - called Sweetbeats - worth checking out and a Facebook group for likeminded music fans called the Bubblegum Pop Circus great name!
Archive 2010-04-01 X-Y-Z-Cosmonaut 2010
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"What this brings to the area is hope," says Cyrille Regis, an "adopted Midlander" who played for West Brom, Coventry, Villa and Wolves across three decades.
West Midlands pack restore pride after the wasteland years 2010
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Fellow Midlander and fellow Denim fan and all-round nice guy Jason aka Sweetbeats has an entertaining blog - called Sweetbeats - worth checking out and a Facebook group for likeminded music fans called the Bubblegum Pop Circus great name!
Sweetbeats... X-Y-Z-Cosmonaut 2010
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Terms like ‘British Asian’, ‘British Muslim’ and ‘Black British’ are no more a valid description of your identity than ‘British English’, ‘British Midlander’ or ‘British Atheist’ are of mine.
Speaking as a People’s Republican… Alix Mortimer 2009
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Terms like ‘British Asian’, ‘British Muslim’ and ‘Black British’ are no more a valid description of your identity than ‘British English’, ‘British Midlander’ or ‘British Atheist’ are of mine.
Could local be the new British? Alix Mortimer 2009
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A new Midlander -- in fact, a new American -- was beginning dimly to emerge.
The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown 1918
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Midlander -- in fact, a new American -- was beginning dimly to emerge.
The Magnificent Ambersons Booth Tarkington 1907
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He had the peculiar grim joy of the Midlander and Northerner in defying an element.
Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899
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The "hopelessly obsolete" British foreign minister, the immediately recognizable Sir Orpheus Midlander, Shaw quipped, would be "amusingly quaint in a museum, say in rooms devoted to the eighteenth century".
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