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Recent Examples of overseas
With no genuine opposition and a history of vote rigging, Lukashenko – in power since 1994 – has further slanted things in his favor this time around by banning overseas voting, removing the minimum turnout threshold and awarding himself lifelong immunity and a permanent seat in parliament.
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Tatsiana Kulakevich, The Conversation, 23 Jan. 2025
Wong, who was born in San Francisco to Chinese parents, was barred from entering the U.S. — under the Chinese Exclusion Act — while returning from an overseas trip in 1890.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 23 Jan. 2025
Often, this labor has involved more traditional jobs such as working in Chinese factories, Russian logging camps, on overseas construction projects or in DPRK restaurants overseas.
—John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
The Japan flight is one of a handful of overseas nonstops that have gradually come to San Diego International Airport.
—Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2025
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Tatsiana Kulakevich, The Conversation, 23 Jan. 2025
Wong, who was born in San Francisco to Chinese parents, was barred from entering the U.S. — under the Chinese Exclusion Act — while returning from an overseas trip in 1890.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 23 Jan. 2025
Often, this labor has involved more traditional jobs such as working in Chinese factories, Russian logging camps, on overseas construction projects or in DPRK restaurants overseas.
—John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
The Japan flight is one of a handful of overseas nonstops that have gradually come to San Diego International Airport.
—Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overseas
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Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
21 Jan. 2025
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The Day One orders affect immigration processes, grant clemency to people convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot; erase Biden administration changes to the country; pull back from international alliances and give a TikTok ban an extension.—
The Hill Staff,
The Hill,
21 Jan. 2025
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Switzerland's largest city serves as a global financial hub where over 400,000 people, or about 28 percent of its population, are foreign-born.—
Dobrina Zhekova,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Jan. 2025
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An Immigrant Workforce Currently about 18 percent of nursing home aides are foreign-born, according to the Baker Institute at Rice University.—
Howard Gleckman,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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Dark matter might not interact with regular particles at all, or the interaction might happen through some exotic mechanism that doesn't involve the Higgs.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
20 Jan. 2025
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Foster is skilled at making clients feel good about one or another technical novelty: the largest possible sheets of structural glass, an exotic new ventilation system, an arch holding up a stadium’s roof.—
Ian Parker,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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Only the families that did not have second homes or relations in distant lands sent their daughters onto the ship.—
Sheila Heti,
The New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2025
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Only the Colorado Rockies, a distant 20th at $129.9 million, have decided not to join in the spending.—
Barry M. Bloom,
Sportico.com,
19 Jan. 2025
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Iran has burned its fingers, and all that even nuclear weapons would bring is a new level of stand-off with Israel–which is in any case a rather far-off country that many ordinary Iranians do not regard as an enemy.—
Max Rodenbeck,
TIME,
17 Jan. 2025
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Combining the optical zoom with digital cropping allows for AI Super Zoom between 30x to 100x to allow for far-off captures.—
Eric Zeman,
PCMAG,
15 Jan. 2025
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Ireland, 23, a tourist from Virginia, was visiting a remote part of the Big Island when she was found along a fishing trail, raped and beaten and barely alive.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
23 Jan. 2025
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Some attribute it to the rise of remote work, as fewer people are worried about their tattoos peeking out from under business attire.—
Leah Prinzivalli,
Allure,
23 Jan. 2025
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Much of Washington Heights is old farmland The area's earliest nonindigenous civilization in the Washington Heights area began in 1835.—
Drake Bentley,
Journal Sentinel,
19 Feb. 2024
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The lizard may also have or spread nonindigenous parasites or pathogens to native wildlife.—
Amaris Encinas,
USA TODAY,
3 Jan. 2024
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Huge multinational corporations — including Westlake Chemicals, Citgo Petroleum, LyondellBasell and ConocoPhillips — have plants just a few miles from Robertson’s home and the office of her environmental nonprofit.—
Sharon Lerner,
ProPublica,
17 Jan. 2025
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Famed Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has been tapped to draw up the master plan, the airport extension is being designed by a renowned Dutch firm, the economic plan overseen by an Australian consultancy, the environmental-impact assessment by a top multinational.—
By Charlie Campbell/Gelephu, Bhutan,
TIME,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Overseas.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overseas. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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