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Recent Examples of repatriate
New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Mohammed Farik bin Amin and Mohammed Nazir bin Lep were repatriated to Malaysia, where both are nationals, according to the United States Department of Defense.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2024
Eventually, six titles – among them religious texts and rabbinical commentaries – were repatriated in a ceremony in May 2022.
—Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
Despite his hard work, the Peabody did not repatriate the remains of the Wabanaki, or the four tribes of Maine, for another 50 years.
—Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2024
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The Pentagon repatriated a Tunisian detainee who had been held in Guantánamo Bay since the prison there opened.
—New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Mohammed Farik bin Amin and Mohammed Nazir bin Lep were repatriated to Malaysia, where both are nationals, according to the United States Department of Defense.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2024
Eventually, six titles – among them religious texts and rabbinical commentaries – were repatriated in a ceremony in May 2022.
—Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
Despite his hard work, the Peabody did not repatriate the remains of the Wabanaki, or the four tribes of Maine, for another 50 years.
—Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for repatriate
Noun
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Zoom in: Americans are a big part of Spain's expatriate boom.—
Jason Lalljee,
Axios,
16 Jan. 2025
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Cricket is deemed a minority sport in Saudi Arabia with fandom mostly confined to South Asian expatriates.—
Tristan Lavalette,
Forbes,
6 Nov. 2024
Verb
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In March, 2023, TikTok’s C.E.O., Shou Chew, testified for more than five hours before Congress, receiving a bipartisan bludgeoning over the harms the app may be inflicting on children.—
Clare Malone,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2025
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For Mother’s Day one year, a large number of women in his family received camouflage sweatpants.—
Scott Cacciola,
New York Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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The Jenin refugee camp in the north of the West Bank, a sprawling area of narrow alleys that has long been a bastion of militant factions, is front and center of the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) latest campaign.—
Tim Lister and Eugenia Yosef,
CNN,
23 Jan. 2025
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The change stands to impact many more Afghan refugees who may lack the documentation needed to stay in Pakistan.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
TIME,
23 Jan. 2025
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At the time, the federal government had switched from paper to using digital fingerprints, and Homeland Security officials uncovered hundreds of cases in which naturalized citizens had been previously deported or lied about criminal records that USCIS couldn't see.—
Lauren Villagran,
USA TODAY,
27 Jan. 2025
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The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees citizenship for people born and naturalized in the U.S.—
John Yoo and John Shu,
Newsweek,
24 Jan. 2025
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Under such a potential deal, Venezuela would take thousands of deportees from the United States in exchange for Trump not revoking current U.S. firms’ oil licenses in Venezuela.—
Andres Oppenheimer,
Miami Herald,
24 Jan. 2025
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Omer Kanat, the executive director of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, a nongovernment group, said that his organization later learned that a few of the deportees had received long prison sentences, but that the fate of most was unknown.—
Nyrola Elimä,
New York Times,
19 Jan. 2025
Noun
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This time his executive orders rely on a provision of Immigration and Nationality Act that allows for the suspension of the entry of migrants after declaring an invasion on the U.S. southern border.—
Sergio Martínez-Beltrán,
NPR,
23 Jan. 2025
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Experts and advocates told ABC News that, without a lawyer, migrants are left to navigate the different avenues of relief alone, filling out documents in a foreign language and arguing their case before a judge.—
Laura Romero,
ABC News,
23 Jan. 2025
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The Biden Administration’s recent actions include extending protection from deportation for hundreds of thousands of immigrants, and blocking oil and gas drilling across more than six hundred million acres of federal waters.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
The New Yorker,
16 Jan. 2025
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The governor’s office has declined for weeks to provide specifics to the Herald/Times about his immigration plans, including how the governor wants to assist with the detention of undocumented immigrants.—
Ana Ceballos,
Miami Herald,
16 Jan. 2025
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Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known as Mormons, murdered 120 emigrants at Mountain Meadows, Utah on September 11, 1857.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes,
11 Jan. 2025
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For one thing, emigrants from developing countries remit around $440 billion annually to relatives at home, a transfer that is three times the size of total official development aid worldwide.—
Sebastian Mallaby,
Foreign Affairs,
28 Sep. 2015
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“Repatriate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repatriate. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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