the English

noun

: the people of England

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From a violent separatist insurgency in the English-speaking west to entrenched corruption, the country has seen growth stifled despite abundant oil and mineral wealth. Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025 Ed Simon is the Public Humanities Special Faculty in the English Department of Carnegie Mellon University, a staff writer for Lit Hub, and the editor of Belt Magazine. Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025 Wright, though, is the one in scorching-hot form in the English Championship. Paul Tenorio, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025 In the English/Scandinavian-language crime thriller, main character Hildur carries a trauma, the unsolved disappearance of her two sisters on their way from school 25 years earlier. Annika Pham, Variety, 1 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for the English

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