How to Use stateless in a Sentence

stateless

adjective
  • But Gazans would still be stateless, and for all its rhetoric, Hamas cannot change that by force.
    The Economist, 17 May 2018
  • It was supposed to be a defining moment for the world's largest stateless ethnic group.
    Alexander Smith, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2017
  • Ashkar and her parents were born stateless and have never lived in Palestine.
    Susan Dunne, courant.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Two family members claimed to be stateless when they were accepted as refugees.
    Rod McGuirk, The Seattle Times, 15 May 2017
  • In the meantime, they were classified as stateless and issued gray alien passports.
    Tacita Vero’, Slate Magazine, 13 Mar. 2017
  • One of the stateless boys, 14-year-old Adul Sam-on, may have helped save everyone’s lives.
    Christianna Silva, Teen Vogue, 11 July 2018
  • Two of the dealers became Dutch nationals, while the others were stateless.
    Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Vast construction projects offer a channel for the infusion of stateless funds.
    Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 17 May 2021
  • There are a lot of people born in the Dominican Republic that are stateless.
    Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
  • But legal experts say the true scope of the order is unclear and could lead some children to be temporarily stateless.
    Daniella Silva, NBC News, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Because nationality in Bahrain is passed through the father, the child was stateless from birth.
    Kristen Chick, Washington Post, 8 July 2017
  • Around two million people live in Gaza, most of them the stateless descendants of refugees from what is now Israel.
    NBC News, 20 June 2018
  • The Nansen passport wasn’t a blanket protection for stateless people.
    Ana Campoy, Quartz, 13 July 2019
  • Three of them – a Libyan, a Somali and a stateless Rohingya – have long been cleared for release.
    Lisa Hajjar, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2025
  • His family is stateless and he’s haunted by the torture his late father suffered when displaced in Kuwait.
    Lorraine Alitelevision Critic, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2022
  • The decision to cancel his visa leaves him effectively stateless, and in limbo, like the others.
    Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Muslim Indians worry that the government could use it to render many of them stateless.
    BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Then, Willard ran for president in 2012 based on his record as a stateless businessman.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Siddiq, now 33, thinks the Rohingya will be stateless forever.
    Max Bearak, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2017
  • After two decades spent in legal limbo, Mo once again has to come to terms with his indefinite future as a stateless person.
    Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The Rohingya became the largest stateless population within a country in the world.
    New York Times, 8 Aug. 2019
  • In the decades since, the agency has taken on many functions of a state for stateless Palestinians, such as providing food, health care and schools.
    Joyce Sohyun Lee, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
  • For 75 years now, they have been forced to live as a stateless population without the ability to return to their homeland.
    Michael Vicente Perez, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Nor can hatred in Myanmar of the largely stateless Muslim group be dismissed as a fringe attitude.
    Hannah Beech, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Will tensions cool—or will the move simply set up another conflict between the Turkish state and the stateless Kurds?
    Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Mast claimed to the judge there that Baby Doe was stateless and needed continuous medical care.
    Luis Martinez, ABC News, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Three of the players as well as Ekapol were stateless and were granted Thai citizenship last August.
    Washington Post, 23 June 2019
  • Under the Assad regime, Kurds were forbidden to teach in their own language, and hundreds of thousands were stateless.
    The Economist, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Israel was too strong to give up territory or permit return to stateless refugees, and the Palestinians were too weak to obtain it.
    Nathan Thrall, Time, 14 May 2018
  • With the fall of Bankman-Fried’s empire, all eyes turned to Binance, the stateless exchange with a reputation for rule-skirting.
    Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2023

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