overseas

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Recent Examples of overseas Issued in Biden's final days in office, the pardon covers Fauci from 2014 onward, effectively insulating him from potential retroactive legal exposure related to the virus's origins or the U.S. role in overseas research. Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025 The nominees in the Top Global Hit from Japan category selected by overseas listeners include a diverse range of tracks, such as songs featured in games, anime show openers, songs familiar from TikTok, and tracks by artists with a notable global presence. Billboard Japan, Billboard, 18 Apr. 2025 That could spell deep trouble for the people of Yiwu, whose livelihoods depend on overseas customers, particularly in the run-up to Christmas. Marc Stewart, CNN Money, 18 Apr. 2025 Trump’s unprecedented use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA, to enact tariffs on imports has roiled markets, stoked forecasts of a potential recession and strained relationships with overseas trading partners. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for overseas
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overseas
Adjective
  • This immersive experience successfully showcased Buldak to a diverse, international audience, cementing its status as the ultimate representative of Korea’s bold culinary influence.
    William Jones, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Syria's foreign minister attended a U.N. Security Council briefing Friday after raising his country's new flag at the international body's headquarters.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Seventy percent of Doral’s population is foreign-born, and Venezuelans make up over a third of the residents.
    Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Around 6% of Amador County's 42,000 residents are foreign-born, according to U.S. Census data.
    Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Great Barrier Reef has over 100 islands, from unique and exotic islands to the Whitsundays and the remarkable Northern Islands.
    Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The osteological evidence, the first of its kind in the world, represents the clearest proof ever found in a skeleton that gladiators fought exotic animals in Britain during Roman times.
    Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But for the church officials and the families at Holy Family Church, the pope was not a distant religious figure in a faraway country, but a daily presence.
    Bilal Shbeir, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Or maybe one dreams of leaving a dying Earth to colonize Mars or other distant planets.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • What once seemed like a far-off frontier may soon become one of the most commercially important whisky markets in the world.
    Mark Littler, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • In a far-off city, all our heroes teamed up to defeat an invading empire and kill the evil immortal sorcerer guiding their invasion, all while exorcising their own various demons or taking on some new ones.
    Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • In addition to the tracks in Tumbler Ridge, more tracks in a remote region northwest called Bullmoose Creek were also discovered, according to the study.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Housing construction starts Housing construction rates have improved in the wake of the pandemic — particularly in the South and West, where a housing boom and the rise of remote work fueled a major demographic shift toward the Sun Belt.
    Sylvan Lane, The Hill, 17 Apr. 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
  • With the risk of global economic harm now a very real threat for many multinational industries, businesses everywhere are working to stem the harm amongst the uncertainty.
    Brett F. Braley-Palko, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The biggest donor was multinational food company Pilgrim's Pride Corporation, which gave $5 million despite having very little political contribution history at the federal level in recent years.
    Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2025

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“Overseas.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overseas. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.

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