Native
Native adjective - Belonging to a particular place by birth or origin.
Usage example: though she now lived in the Northeast, she was a native Midwesterner
Strange
Strange adjective - Relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world.
Both words in one sentence
- And also Night Watch, where the strange and foreign country is his own native Ankh-Morpork — but thirty years previously in his past...
Source: Strange Cop in a Strange Land - Surprisingly Good English: the author apologized countless times for her spelling and strange gramar/syntax by explaining she wasn't a native English speaker, being French instead.
- The Third Doctor and Jo Grant discover a plot to wipe out all native life on Solos after a strange mutation develops in its people.
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