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true-born

adjective

  1. being such by birth

    a true-born Scot

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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If it turns out that a white, male, true-born heir is the saviour after all, it will feel like the show has missed its own point.

As Richard Werner, the author of “Princes of the Yen”, a history of the central bank’s failures, points out, by tradition the job alternates every five years between a candidate backed by the finance ministry and a “true-born” BoJ insider.

As a private citizen in New York, Trump discriminated against African Americans in housing rentals, campaigned for the death penalty in the notorious Central Park jogger case, and repeatedly abused Barack Obama on racial grounds, suggesting he was not a true-born American.

“What greater pleasure can there be for a true-born Englishman or true-born Englishwoman than to listen to our own national anthem -a national anthem for our whole country, our whole United Kingdom,” Rees-Mogg said.

"What greater pleasure can there be for a true-born Englishman or true-born Englishwoman than to listen to our own national anthem —a national anthem for our whole country, our whole United Kingdom," Rees-Mogg said.

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