How to Use foreign-born in a Sentence
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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
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In fact, six of the league’s past seven MVPs have been foreign-born.
—Tom Tapp, Deadline, 4 June 2025
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Nearly one-third of Latinos in the U.S. are foreign-born.
—Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
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Their work was convened at H-Space by Sandy Cheng, who’s foreign-born herself.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
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About a quarter of all NBA players this season are foreign-born.
—Joe Vardon, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
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About a quarter of all NBA players this season are foreign-born.
—Joe Vardon, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
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More than one-quarter of physicians and surgeons are foreign-born.
—Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
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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
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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
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The union’s members are nearly all Hispanic and foreign-born, according to the union.
—Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 2 Mar. 2024
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Zoom in: Nearly 18% of Texas residents are foreign-born.
—Alex Fitzpatrick, Axios, 17 Mar. 2025
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Nearly 1 in 4 New York State residents are foreign-born.
—Murad Awawdeh, New York Daily News, 16 Dec. 2024
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Partly as a result of the ongoing border crisis, the number of foreign-born ...
—Daniel Foster, National Review, 13 Apr. 2023
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Twenty-eight percent of the residents are foreign-born, double the statewide rate, according to MOC.
—Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2024
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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
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Just over 19% of the once rapidly declining industrial city is now foreign-born, the center said.
—Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 29 June 2024
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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
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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
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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
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Since then, every first overall pick has been either a minority, foreign-born, or both.
—Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 26 June 2025
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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
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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
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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
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Nationwide, about a third of the construction workforce is foreign-born, Simonson said.
—Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Mar. 2025
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Nationwide, about a third of the construction workforce is foreign-born, Simonson said.
—Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Mar. 2025
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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
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Two in five doctorate-level scientists and engineers in the United States are foreign-born.
—Emma Whitford, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
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Fort Myers is roughly a quarter Latino and a fifth foreign-born, according to Census data.
—Syra Ortiz Blanes, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2025
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Fort Myers is roughly a quarter Latino and a fifth foreign-born, according to Census data.
—Syra Ortiz Blanes, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2025
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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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