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verb

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Recent Examples of repatriate
Verb
At the hearing on Sunday, lawyers for the U.S. government insisted that the children were being repatriated with their parents. Rebecca Schneid, Time, 31 Aug. 2025 The children are reportedly under the care of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) but would be repatriated as part of a pilot program with the Guatemalan government. Dan Gooding gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025 And 70% of those executives cite the need to repatriate at least some of their applications and data on-premises. Patrick Moorhead, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025 Around half a million Afghans who had taken refuge in Iran in the course of the long war in their country were forced to repatriate under duress as the hunt for Israeli collaborators accelerated a deportation campaign that began earlier in the year. Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for repatriate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repatriate
Noun
  • While Kitsch is terrific as Edwards, the show’s dark horse is Tom Hopper, who plays Navy SEAL Lieutenant, Raife Hastings, a Rhodesian expatriate.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Some parents are concerned that tuition fees for international schools in Kenya could rise further with the arrival of more expatriates in the country.
    Martin K.N Siele, semafor.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Guests booking stays between September 12 and December 25, 2025, can selecg the Experience More package, receiving a resort credit of up to USD $800 on dining, wellness, and curated in-residence experiences.
    Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The Hortmans’ assassination received a flurry of coverage over the strange circumstances under which it was carried out, with pictures of Boelter in his silicone mask initially flooding social media.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Everything that happens in each box of the game is based on real situations that refugees have to go through.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Sophie Carson is a general assignment reporter who reports on religion and faith, immigrants and refugees and more.
    Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • These bulbs form clumps that quickly naturalize in woodland gardens or lawns.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Arendt argued that such a view naturalizes anti-Semitism, counterintuitively suggesting its legitimacy.
    Daniel May, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Some of the poorest countries will make deals—for instance, by providing the United States with preferred access to their resources or serving as destinations for U.S. deportees.
    Adam S. Posen, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
  • But the reality is that deportees' experience of building a life in Mexico can vary dramatically, depending on their earning capacity, language and cultural skills, and other factors, said Israel Ibarra González, a professor of migration studies at Mexico's Colegio de la Frontera Norte university.
    Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The Supreme Court will decide whether to grant the administration's emergency request to strip protections from Venezuelan migrants.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Urbieta’s feature debut is an instigating social drama that follows the tensions between a couple after an encounter with migrants trying to cross the river between the two countries.
    Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • On average at the six New England ICE detention centers analyzed in the study, immigrants spent 29 consecutive days in solitary confinement between 2018 and 2023, according to the researchers.
    Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Without the right visibility or relationships, skilled freelancers, particularly women, people of color, immigrants and international talent, often get stuck competing for low-paying projects on crowded marketplaces.
    Dr. Stevens Bonhomme, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • An article in The Guardian in May 2025 reported that a record number of emigrants left New Zealand in 2023 and 2024.
    Alex Ledsom, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Americans still hoping to move to Portugal, meanwhile, might be wise to see if their preferred neighborhoods are already too saturated with fellow emigrants or tourists.
    Michael Bartiromo, The Hill, 14 June 2025

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“Repatriate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repatriate. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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