as in exile
a person forced to emigrate for political reasons refugees began returning to their homeland after years of political unrest and war

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Recent Examples of refugee On immigration, Trump signed a flurry of executive actions, including ones that sought to end birthright citizenship, halt all refugee admissions and send the military to the southern border. Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 22 Jan. 2025 Immigrant advocates prepare to find out Jan. 21, 2025 There are a little more than 10,000 refugees from around the world who had already gone through the lengthy refugee admission process and had travel scheduled over the next few weeks, according to a document obtained by the AP. Farnoush Amiri and Rebecca Santana, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2025 Individually, Perkins tried to do as much as possible to help refugees. Sara Georgini, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Jan. 2025 Iran would never choose a Rasoulof movie as its official Oscar submission, but the film qualified as German thanks to its Berlin co-producers and Rasoulof’s status as a refugee there. Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for refugee 
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  • More contemporary authors whose work on exile is very important and inspirational to me are Solmaz Sharif, Aysegul Savas, Isabella Hammad, Yasmin Zaher, Ocean Vuong, Sahar Muradi, and Jamil Jan Kochai.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 16 Jan. 2025
  • In 1936 Schoenberg bought a Spanish Colonial in Brentwood, and the house became a center of cultural life for European exiles, entertaining the likes of Thomas Mann and Franz Werfel and his wife, Alma Mahler-Werfel.
    Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
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  • Now Grace stars alongside Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Dockery in Mel Gibson’s latest action film, Flight Risk, about an air marshal tasked with transferring a fugitive to his trial via a small plane.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Below-freezing weather helped law enforcement in Oklahoma catch a fugitive.
    Robert Shackelford, CNN, 22 Jan. 2025
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  • At the time, news reports claimed that evidence of aliens was found at the site, but this claim was never substantiated.
    Ailsa Harvey, Space.com, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Some of top allies are saying aliens might be on the next administration's agenda, days before the returns to the White House. Donald Trump Jr., former Congressman , and Representative William Timmons have all raised the possibility of a federal investigation into in the past week.
    Theo Burman, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
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  • Zoom in: Americans are a big part of Spain's expatriate boom.
    Jason Lalljee, Axios, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Cricket is deemed a minority sport in Saudi Arabia with fandom mostly confined to South Asian expatriates.
    Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024

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