the English

noun

: the people of England

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Sony has invested heavily in dubbing content for the Indian market, making movies available not just in the English and Hindi languages, but also in Tamil and Telugu. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 June 2025 The addition of the STAAR Alternate 2 test results to the district’s preliminary data improved the percentages of students meeting grade level in reading across grades 3-8, in addition to high school testers who took the English I and English II end-of-course tests. Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 June 2025 Wakefield, who hailed from the English county of East Yorkshire, managed a local pub. Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 24 June 2025 And both the Irish and the Africans were left to make art with the tools the English forced upon them—their instruments, their gods, their language. Benjamin Hale june 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for the English

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“The English.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20English. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.

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