How to Use foreign-born in a Sentence

foreign-born

adjective
  • And the growth of the foreign-born in the American South has been the fastest in the past 10 years.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 July 2024
  • In fact, six of the league’s past seven MVPs have been foreign-born.
    Tom Tapp, Deadline, 4 June 2025
  • Nearly one-third of Latinos in the U.S. are foreign-born.
    Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
  • Their work was convened at H-Space by Sandy Cheng, who’s foreign-born herself.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
  • About a quarter of all NBA players this season are foreign-born.
    Joe Vardon, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
  • About a quarter of all NBA players this season are foreign-born.
    Joe Vardon, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
  • More than one-quarter of physicians and surgeons are foreign-born.
    Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
  • About one-third of construction workers are foreign-born, the Harvard study found—about twice the rate of the overall labor force.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
  • South of Market saw growth in both the overall and foreign-born populations over the recent decade.
    Adriana Rezal, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2023
  • The union’s members are nearly all Hispanic and foreign-born, according to the union.
    Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Zoom in: Nearly 18% of Texas residents are foreign-born.
    Alex Fitzpatrick, Axios, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Nearly 1 in 4 New York State residents are foreign-born.
    Murad Awawdeh, New York Daily News, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Partly as a result of the ongoing border crisis, the number of foreign-born ...
    Daniel Foster, National Review, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Twenty-eight percent of the residents are foreign-born, double the statewide rate, according to MOC.
    Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Myers: The majority of our fans are located outside the U.S., and 25% of our players are foreign-born.
    Josh Glicksman, Billboard, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Just over 19% of the once rapidly declining industrial city is now foreign-born, the center said.
    Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 29 June 2024
  • The number and share of the U.S. population that are foreign-born or are immigrants reached record highs in January, a report says.
    Greg Norman, Fox News, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The data also show that nearly a third of residents are foreign-born, a share that is almost double the statewide average.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Roughly 14% of the country’s total population is foreign-born today, just shy of the record set more than a century ago.
    Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 25 July 2024
  • Since then, every first overall pick has been either a minority, foreign-born, or both.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 26 June 2025
  • And while 11 percent of Black Americans across the country identify as foreign-born, those figures jump to 40 percent in Greater Boston.
    Tiana Woodard, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Qualifying children must be born in the United States or foreign-born with a green card or pass the substantial presence test for tax purposes.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2024
  • In Idaho, Martinez said about 30% of construction workers are foreign-born, a percentage that includes those here legally and those who are not.
    Carolyn Komatsoulis, Idaho Statesman, 18 June 2025
  • Nationwide, about a third of the construction workforce is foreign-born, Simonson said.
    Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Nationwide, about a third of the construction workforce is foreign-born, Simonson said.
    Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Over 70% of the full-time graduate students in key technical fields at U.S. universities are foreign-born.
    Stuart Anderson, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
  • Two in five doctorate-level scientists and engineers in the United States are foreign-born.
    Emma Whitford, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
  • Fort Myers is roughly a quarter Latino and a fifth foreign-born, according to Census data.
    Syra Ortiz Blanes, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Fort Myers is roughly a quarter Latino and a fifth foreign-born, according to Census data.
    Syra Ortiz Blanes, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2025
  • 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

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