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Recent Examples of evacuees
Same as 20 years ago, when some Katrina evacuees navigated such injustices.
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Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
For three days, Qaddoura worked recruiting volunteers to help the relief effort as more evacuees arrived in Houston.
—Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 30 Aug. 2025
The grant will also fund the installation of improved roadway signage throughout the neighborhoods to help emergency vehicles, evacuees and large trucks navigate the roadways and the creation of a reusable banner series to educate residents about wildfire resilience.
—Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 17 Aug. 2025
The same lawmakers who once expressed outrage over the Afghanistan withdrawal are now silent as those evacuees — and many others — are funneled into a militarized detention system.
—Chris Purdy, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
In collaboration with Polish architects, a foundation spotlighted in the exhibit repurposes old windows for reuse, allowing evacuees to return home.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2025
Locals had been ordered to evacuate earlier that day but by Sunday afternoon, the Horry County Fire Rescue said Carolina Forest evacuees could return home.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
Southern California's 211 network later would leap into action in a similar way, assisting thousands of evacuees from the Pacific Palisades, Altadena and Pasadena neighborhoods of Los Angeles find emergency housing, financial aid and community resources as their communities burned to the ground.
—Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2025
The evacuees, many of whom were previously homeless, watched helplessly as their home burned on live TV.
—Angela Hart, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2025
Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
For three days, Qaddoura worked recruiting volunteers to help the relief effort as more evacuees arrived in Houston.
—Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 30 Aug. 2025
The grant will also fund the installation of improved roadway signage throughout the neighborhoods to help emergency vehicles, evacuees and large trucks navigate the roadways and the creation of a reusable banner series to educate residents about wildfire resilience.
—Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 17 Aug. 2025
The same lawmakers who once expressed outrage over the Afghanistan withdrawal are now silent as those evacuees — and many others — are funneled into a militarized detention system.
—Chris Purdy, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
In collaboration with Polish architects, a foundation spotlighted in the exhibit repurposes old windows for reuse, allowing evacuees to return home.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2025
Locals had been ordered to evacuate earlier that day but by Sunday afternoon, the Horry County Fire Rescue said Carolina Forest evacuees could return home.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
Southern California's 211 network later would leap into action in a similar way, assisting thousands of evacuees from the Pacific Palisades, Altadena and Pasadena neighborhoods of Los Angeles find emergency housing, financial aid and community resources as their communities burned to the ground.
—Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2025
The evacuees, many of whom were previously homeless, watched helplessly as their home burned on live TV.
—Angela Hart, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evacuees
refugees
Noun
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There are visual references to refugees, immigrants, medieval morality plays, New Orleans funerals.—
David Hochman,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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Our right-wing Christians are fighting to turn away the most desperate foreign refugees, all while worshiping Jesus, who was once a foreign refugee.—
John Fugelsang
September 12,
Literary Hub,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Evacuees.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evacuees. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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