overseas

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Recent Examples of overseas France's own ties to the Indo-Pacific are strong, with more than 1.6 million of its citizens living in the region in French overseas territories. David Rising, Arkansas Online, 31 May 2025 Among the memo’s most alarming revelations is the claim that high-ranking officials—such as María Iris Varela Rangel, who oversaw Venezuela’s prison system, and Diosdado Cabello—have directly orchestrated the release and overseas deployment of TDA operatives. Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 29 May 2025 Despite concerns about the Harvard ban, Alex Zeng, an overseas education consultant based in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, said American universities remained the top choice for many Chinese students. Jennifer Jett, NBC news, 27 May 2025 His big win was not greeted with rapture by Iranian state media, who gave Panahi’s overseas win limited coverage. Caroline Frost, Deadline, 26 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for overseas
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Adjective
  • The various parties have long envisioned a scenario where domestic and international rights would be shared by at least two different streaming services.
    Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2025
  • The stadium has previously hosted multiple international and domestic competitions, World Cup qualifiers and the 2016 MLS All-Star Game.
    Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 13 June 2025
Adjective
  • In the past, older Asian Americans have had better health outcomes than other groups because the large majority were foreign-born, Ye said.
    Claire Wang, NBC news, 11 June 2025
  • As the protests grew in the county, where about 1 in 3 residents is foreign-born, Trump ordered 2,000 National Guard troops to the region.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 10 June 2025
Adjective
  • As a world explorer for over 45 years, Dobson has visited more than 90 countries and is highly experienced in exotic travel and extreme luxury adventures.
    Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
  • Now the nonprofit has more than 100 animals and takes in all kinds of exotic wildlife — most of them former pets.
    Natalia Jaramillo, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 June 2025
Adjective
  • Until recently, restoring meaningful vision for these patients was a distant dream.
    Shelli Brunswick, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
  • Cars and trucks traveling along the highway passed by quietly in the distant background.
    Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 13 June 2025
Adjective
  • Bernadette Nixon, Algolia’s CEO, said the company’s new agentic implementation isn’t a far-off dream, but an immediate reality.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 2 June 2025
  • As of now, Planet Nine remains all but a theory, but the existence of this far-off world rests on gravitational patterns in the outer solar system.
    Nick Butler, FOXNews.com, 31 May 2025
Adjective
  • On a remote island in northern Norway, metal detectorists stumbled upon a pair of bronze treasures.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 4 June 2025
  • After all, there exist legions who will not miss the biennial festival for anything in the world—those of us who, religiously and ritualistically, take planes, trains and automobiles to reach a remote fishing village in Jamaica where some 3000 people gather in the name of the holy word.
    Baz Dreisinger, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • The lizard may also have or spread nonindigenous parasites or pathogens to native wildlife.
    Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2024
Adjective
  • The bill seeks to extend tax breaks, set during Trump's first term in 2017 and on track to expire at the end of 2025, for multinational corporations.
    Shashwat Chauhan, USA Today, 7 June 2025
  • That’s not to say the big players are missing out entirely: Cascadian Farm is a recognizable organic brand with the heft of a multinational corporation behind it.
    Brooks Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2025

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“Overseas.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overseas. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.

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