Native
Native adjective - Belonging to a particular place by birth or origin.
Prevailing and native are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Prevailing" instead an adjective "Native".
Prevailing
Prevailing adjective - Accepted, used, or practiced by most people.
Native and prevailing are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Native" instead an adjective "Prevailing".
Both words in one sentence
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While it used to be thought that the Angles and Saxons had displaced the native Britons, but the prevailing theory is that they simply took over as the dominant political class.
Source: The Low Middle Ages
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Prevailing and Native. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/native/prevailing
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Prevailing or Native. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/native/prevailing.
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