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Recent Examples of repatriate
Verb
What if European savers, depicted by MAGA evangelists as rich and degenerate progressives, sold American assets and repatriated their savings? David McWilliams, Time, 9 Apr. 2025 On Saturday, Venezuela’s special envoy for peace talks, Jorge Rodríguez Gómez, announced an agreement with the US to repatriate Venezuelans detained in the US back to Venezuela. Merlin Delcid, CNN, 23 Mar. 2025 In some cases, the Met has arranged to retain items that authorities identified as looted, such as the Etruscan carvings, after negotiating a loan agreement with the country to which they were repatriated. Graham Bowley, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2025 In response to the audit, UC President Dr. Michael Drake said the university system is committed to repatriating ancestral remains. William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 16 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for repatriate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repatriate
Noun
  • Dynastic planning should ideally incorporate sufficient flexibility to ensure any irrevocable trust structures do not implicate foreign trust tax and administrative burdens especially when those benefiting from the trusts obtain multiple citizenships, change residencies, or expatriate.
    Priya Prakash Royal Esq. LL.M. MBA AEP TEP, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
  • Their compatriots and expatriates turned the first five days of the Miami Open into a Fonseca fest.
    Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • What other big inmate escapes received national attention?
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 18 May 2025
  • Now, Groff has received his fourth Tony nomination for playing singer-actor Bobby Darin in the jukebox musical, Just in Time.
    Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • The March, and the Madrid Accords agreement between Spain, Morocco and Mauretania that followed, signified regime change and the forceful displacement of majority of Sahrawis, many of whom now live in refugee camps in Algeria.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 May 2025
  • The processing of Afrikaners granted refugee status has also been unusually fast.
    May 9, CBS News, 9 May 2025
Verb
  • For this reason, some green card holders choose to naturalize first, gaining U.S. citizenship before initiating a family sponsorship process.
    Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
  • Those already in the U.S. could not become naturalized.
    Erika Hayasaki, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • Beyond the defacement, Anonymous also claims to have stolen flight records and passenger manifests that include details of deportees.
    Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
  • The deportees sent by the U.S. represent an infusion of cash for the country.
    Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Even as many New Yorkers, especially migrants, remain regular churchgoers, others have drifted away from the faith.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 10 May 2025
  • White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller says President Donald Trump is looking for ways to expand its legal power to deport migrants who are in the United States illegally.
    Will Weissert, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2025
Noun
  • Over 100 Florida Highway Patrol officers were also recently sworn in as Special Deputy U.S. Marshalls, authorizing them to arrest undocumented immigrants.
    Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 16 May 2025
  • Despite a 150-year tradition of granting citizenship to everyone born in the United States, Trump said it was never intended for the children of undocumented immigrants or temporary visitors.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • Read: Hong Kong is self-destructing Since 2019, more than 5,000 emigrants have moved to the South London borough of Sutton, where a local group organized a camp in 2023 to educate children of the Hong Kong diaspora about Chinese repression.
    Cora Engelbrecht, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2025
  • In the massacre, settlers of the LDS Church involved in a territorial militia killed 120 American western emigrants.
    Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2025

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“Repatriate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repatriate. Accessed 20 May. 2025.

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