as in to exile
to force to leave a country
members of the deposed dictator's once-feared political party were expatriated as well
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as in immigrant
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Recent Examples of expatriate
Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Rodrigo Montes de Oca, a research scholar at the Center for the U.S. and Mexico, said this two-step process has been the case since the government first allowed expatriates to vote in 2006.
Voters have increasingly met these requirements.
—Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American-Statesman, 5 June 2024
The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
These men had not fallen in love with the Caribbean island on a beach vacation or expatriated there for a simpler life.
—Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
Praneeta Pujari, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
The painter’s friendship with American expatriate artist and bookbinder Mary Reynolds, whose books and papers posthumously ended up at the Art Institute, is the museum’s way in.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2025
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Noun
For expatriates and multinational business owners, staying informed and proactive in tax planning will be crucial.
—Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Rodrigo Montes de Oca, a research scholar at the Center for the U.S. and Mexico, said this two-step process has been the case since the government first allowed expatriates to vote in 2006.
Voters have increasingly met these requirements.
—Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American-Statesman, 5 June 2024
Verb
Turgenev was also one of the earliest Russian writers to be lionized by Westerners—not just by close friends like Flaubert but also by later figures (some of them expatriates themselves), such as Henry James and Joseph Conrad.
—The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
These men had not fallen in love with the Caribbean island on a beach vacation or expatriated there for a simpler life.
—Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
Adjective
This region shares strong diplomatic and trade relations with India, has a large expatriate Indian population with high digital adoption rates and favorable local regulations with growing government initiatives to support tech startups.
—Praneeta Pujari, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
The painter’s friendship with American expatriate artist and bookbinder Mary Reynolds, whose books and papers posthumously ended up at the Art Institute, is the museum’s way in.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2025
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Noun
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Israeli officials have rejected that definition, arguing that descendants don’t qualify as refugees and thus don’t have the right to return to their ancestral homes in what is now Israel.—
Eugenia Yosef and Oren Liebermann,
CNN Money,
28 Apr. 2025
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What might destroy our society is not immigrants or refugees or Palestinians or women seeking abortions or trans people or any of the other assorted others that have been posited as undermining American society.—
Viet Thanh Nguyễn,
Time,
28 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Hammie also screams at people on car trips and sometimes has to be exiled to the dashboard.—
Anna North,
Vox,
23 Mar. 2025
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The Garifuna people are descendants of Indigenous Caribbean tribes and enslaved Africans, who were exiled from St. Vincent and the Grenadines by British colonizers and settled largely on the coast of Central America.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
19 Mar. 2025
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Rather than continuing to banish one another, the four decided to end the game and split the $204,300 cash prize four ways.—
Esther Kang,
People.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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On his third shift, after chants of LAN-DY had long rained upon the golden-haired forward, Landeskog hooked a Silver Knight and was banished for two minutes.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
12 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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And as a result of the party’s control over information, particularly regarding foreign affairs, any encounter with the Trump administration can be framed domestically as Xi standing firm against foreign bullying.—
Zongyuan Zoe Liu,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Apr. 2025
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The 100-day mark comes as the Trump administration is hashing out trade negotiations with countries across the world after Mr. Trump levied nearly worldwide tariffs on foreign imports, tariffs that most economists say will make goods more expensive and worsen economic prospects.—
Kathryn Watson,
CBS News,
29 Apr. 2025
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“Expatriate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expatriate. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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