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- noun Plural form of
compatriot .
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Examples
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But how long Bruschi and his compatriots from the Super Bowl teams remain a part of the franchise's fabric is uncertain.
As Patriots gear up again, their hopes rest on Brady's health 2009
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To know that your opinion, and the opinion of your teabagger compatriots, is worthless?
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My father, a retired Army colonel who worked there for nine years, has lost six compatriots from the cowardly sneak attack on that building.
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For most national subjectseven those who live together "in a little village far in a country," where, as Mitford writes (just before launching into her praise of Austen's settings), people are "close-packed and insulated like ants in an ant-hill or bees in a hive" (3) the act of knowing the minds of one's compatriots is much more a matter of using one's imagination, much more of a guessing game.
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Whatever some people may try to tell you, indifference to the needs of one's compatriots is malignant, never benign.
National Unity 1991
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We don’t really have time for quote-unquote ‘conservative’ Democrats whose only difference between them and their liberal compatriots is in how much the rubble bounces.
It’s official: Charles Lollar is running for MD-05. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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But while some may think that Kevin Terrell and his compatriots are all talk, there have been numerous examples of this type of far right extremism that have either led to violence or were narrowly prevented from leading to violence.
Matt Kane: The Enemy from Within: Why We Cannot Focus Solely on Islamic Terrorism Matt Kane 2010
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But while some may think that Kevin Terrell and his compatriots are all talk, there have been numerous examples of this type of far right extremism that have either led to violence or were narrowly prevented from leading to violence.
Matt Kane: The Enemy from Within: Why We Cannot Focus Solely on Islamic Terrorism Matt Kane 2010
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Pan, would you mind, what with me being so resentful of your domination of our culture and all, helping me figure out what I should call my compatriots who live in Quebec?
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For Ms. Merkel and most of her compatriots, that is already far too close to negating the "no bailout" rule that was enshrined at Maastricht in 1991.
Why Accept Changes EU Leaders Say Won't Work? Terence Roth 2010
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