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Recent Examples of repatriate
Rob Gillies, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2025
Ukrainian organization Bring Kids Back UA, is one of the groups relying on the evidence to help find children and repatriate them.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
More than 100 migrants have asked not to be repatriated, Panamanian officials have said.
—Yong Xiong, Michael Rios, Cnn and Ivonne Valdés, CNN, 22 Feb. 2025
Since the deportation flights resumed in February, 1,296 Venezuelans have been repatriated, including 176 who were temporarily held at the U.S. military base in Guantánamo, according to regime officials.
—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2025
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Carney said the significant transformation that Trump is seeking in repatriating manufacturing in the U.S. could lead to inflation and slowing growth.
—Rob Gillies, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2025
Ukrainian organization Bring Kids Back UA, is one of the groups relying on the evidence to help find children and repatriate them.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
More than 100 migrants have asked not to be repatriated, Panamanian officials have said.
—Yong Xiong, Michael Rios, Cnn and Ivonne Valdés, CNN, 22 Feb. 2025
Since the deportation flights resumed in February, 1,296 Venezuelans have been repatriated, including 176 who were temporarily held at the U.S. military base in Guantánamo, according to regime officials.
—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for repatriate
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Loser of the Week Michael McMahon, a retired NYPD sergeant turned private detective, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for his part in harassing and stalking a Chinese expatriate named Xu Jin, who is wanted by his homeland’s government.—
Thomas Brewster,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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This work provided a full understanding of Japanese business culture and granted her the opportunity to live for five years as an expatriate in Silicon Valley.—
Jason Phillips,
USA TODAY,
28 Feb. 2025
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And Calo, the writer, director and producer known for co-creating and serving as showrunner on FX’s The Bear will receive the Special Achievement in Television Writing Award, recognizing her dynamic storytelling and innovative contributions to TV.—
Hilary Lewis,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Apr. 2025
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The new restrictions, which have raised the risk of global shortages, require exporters of medium and heavy rare earths in question to receive licenses from China’s Ministry of Commerce.—
Dylan Butts,
CNBC,
23 Apr. 2025
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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
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If Trump were to attempt to strip citizenship from people who were naturalized lawfully, legal experts say it would almost certainly be struck down as unconstitutional.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
15 Apr. 2025
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The amendment ensures that all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. and subject to its jurisdiction are citizens.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
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These include limiting due process to speed deportations and expanding the pool of potential deportees by ensnaring people in the country lawfully.—
Stuart Anderson,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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Boasberg, who currently serves as the chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, issued a temporary restraining order halting the deportations—but the planes carrying deportees still took off from the U.S. and landed in El Salvador.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Apr. 2025
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For instance, 17 people were charged in 2024 for taking part in protests or demonstrations in support of irregular migrants, without apparently having any direct contact with them.—
Frey Lindsay,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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Despite border crossings being down, Trump invoked the 1798 wartime Alien Enemies Act to deport hundreds of Venezuelan migrants his administration alleged to be gang members, affording them little to no due process.—
Alexandra Hutzler,
ABC News,
29 Apr. 2025
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Children of immigrants attend local schools, and their parents work in every sector of the economy, including restaurants, transportation, construction, farming and ranching, hotels, resorts and hospitals.—
Benjamin Waddell,
Denver Post,
22 Apr. 2025
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Several have lived in Midtown hotels that the city uses to house immigrants.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
22 Apr. 2025
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Read: Hong Kong is self-destructing Since 2019, more than 5,000 emigrants have moved to the South London borough of Sutton, where a local group organized a camp in 2023 to educate children of the Hong Kong diaspora about Chinese repression.—
Cora Engelbrecht,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2025
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In the massacre, settlers of the LDS Church involved in a territorial militia killed 120 American western emigrants.—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA TODAY,
28 Jan. 2025
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“Repatriate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repatriate. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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