the English

noun

: the people of England

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Fifteen games have passed since, cementing Deepdale as one of the sternest away trips in the English Football League. Sam Tighe, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025 Leeds United Winners of the English Attendance Cup for the last 53 years in a row and counting. Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025 This is according to Korea JoongAng Daily, the English edition of the South Korean national daily newspaper JoongAng Ilbo. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025 Catherine Nicholson Catherine Nicholson is a Professor of English at Yale and the author of Reading and Not Reading ‘The Faerie Queene’ and Uncommon Tongues: Eloquence and Eccentricity in the English Renaissance. Catherine Nicholson, The New York Review of Books, 6 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for the English

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