How to Use repatriation in a Sentence
repatriation
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But even if change comes, repatriation will take time, likely years.
—Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, 9 Aug. 2023
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This second wave of cloud repatriation isn’t about turning back the clock.
—Mark Mahle, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
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Tourists spent the night on the airport floor, waiting for repatriation flights.
—Fedja Grulovic, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2023
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The news of their repatriation brought joy to their families.
—Chinedu Asadu, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2025
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The audit also found gaps in the repatriation work.
—Kerri J. Malloy, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2026
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Some museums in the state are also doing a good job of repatriation.
—AZCentral.com, 5 June 2023
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There are costs associated with repatriation, of course, for the tribes as well as the state.
—John O’Connor and Melissa Perez Winder, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2023
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Monday’s repatriation, if completed, would have been the first this year.
—ABC News, 16 Feb. 2026
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In Australia, this kind of repatriation is called a return to Country.
—ArsTechnica, 18 May 2026
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Such painstaking puzzle work paves the way for the repatriation of Russian soldiers to their homeland.
—Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 2024
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The museum said the wall text is being adjusted to note the objects’ repatriation.
—Tom Mashberg, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2023
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The new rule requires that those items not be displayed without tribal permission or if within the process of repatriation.
—Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
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Some Gulf airlines have since resumed flights, though mainly for repatriation efforts.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 5 Mar. 2026
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Alex Potter is in Ukraine now, trying to arrange the repatriation of her husband’s body.
—Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2023
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In both cases, the museum supported the repatriation of the brains.
—Claire Healy, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
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Let’s be clear, repatriation doesn’t mean dragging everything back into an on-premise server closet.
—Mark Mahle, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
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At the university’s current pace, some of its campuses could take more than a decade to finish repatriation.
—Kerri J. Malloy, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2026
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Isolated from the outside world with no hope of repatriation, Jenkins found a certain rhythm to his defeat.
—Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
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The South African diamonds that will sit in the crown instead are also the subject of calls for repatriation.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
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Officials did not give a breakdown of how many were deported and how many took up offers of voluntary repatriation.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
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The move is the latest instance in a wave of repatriation efforts from prominent institutions around the world.
—Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2023
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Bean and Hughes said that the repatriation serves as a step toward healing and rebuilding the parts of their culture that were taken.
—Clarise Larson, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Nov. 2022
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Both flights will also transport passengers from other countries which did not send their own repatriation flights, officials have said.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 12 May 2026
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Colombia signed an agreement earlier this month to resume repatriation flights from the US.
—Michael Rios, CNN Money, 22 Feb. 2026
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The early signs of repatriation were largely financial.
—Mark Mahle, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
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More than 1,000 Iraqis, mostly Kurds, have since left the region on repatriation flights.
—Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2021
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If the remains are confirmed to be Native Hawaiian, the agency takes custody of them for repatriation.
—CBS News, 27 Nov. 2024
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However, Laos did not accept repatriations from the United States at the time.
—Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 10 Feb. 2026
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The repatriation of the bodies marks one of the largest returns of remains since Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine more than three years ago.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 14 June 2025
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Would a Parthenon agreement cause the museum to be deluged with demands for the repatriation of other foreign treasures?
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
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