deported

verb

past tense of deport
1
as in exiled
to force to leave a country deported them back to their country of birth

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2
as in acquitted
to manage the actions of (oneself) in a particular way deported herself with grace and propriety at the country club cotillion

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Recent Examples of deported Of the 429 people arrested in Sacramento, less than half — 204 — had been deported. — Mathew Miranda july 9, Sacbee.com, 10 July 2026 Gonzalez-Garcia was sentenced to 30 months in prison and deported again in December 2018, officials said. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 9 July 2026 Romero Audivet, who holds dual Venezuelan and Colombian citizenship, lived in Atlanta before being deported. — Sonia Osorio, Miami Herald, 9 July 2026 Earlier this year, a Times investigation revealed ICE deported an informant who had turned against two of his co-defendants in a meth smuggling case. — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026 A lot of people that came here that were committing crimes have either been incarcerated or deported. — Lauren Peller, ABC News, 8 July 2026 For example, taxpayers could bear the costs of an undocumented immigrant’s long prison sentence even if the person is ultimately going to be deported. — Carolyn Komatsoulis updated July 2, Idaho Statesman, 2 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deported
  1. exiled
  2. acquitted
  3. banished
  4. behaved
  5. relegated
  6. carried
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  • After years of him rampaging around and causing destruction, a braintrust of heroes exiled the green monster into space.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 8 July 2026
  • The reality star, actress, and comedian hasn't been exiled from late night altogether, however.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 1 July 2026
Definition of exiled
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  • Yanez was charged with second-degree manslaughter but was acquitted by a jury in 2017.
    — Tyler Quattrin, Twin Cities, 7 July 2026
  • After he was accused of murdering Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman (charges of which he was acquitted), Tana told him not to come back to the restaurant.
    — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 7 July 2026
Definition of acquitted
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  • Catlett was banished from the United States for what her art had to say.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • There’s no chance Cannes Lions will be the next one banished from the game if this year is anything to go by.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 26 June 2026
Definition of banished
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  • Easy access to credit can distort markets, and higher education has behaved like one for decades.
    — Richard Fowler, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • What matters most is that the E3800LFP consistently behaved like a serious backup platform throughout testing.
    — Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 29 June 2026
Definition of behaved
Verb
  • Raul Jimenez Jimenez, playing in his fourth World Cup with Mexico at the age of 35, rejoined Wolverhampton Wanderers — relegated from the Premier League last season — from Fulham on the eve of the tournament.
    — Tom Burrows, New York Times, 12 July 2026
  • The buffet area quickly exceeded capacity and some dishes had to be relegated to the fridge in the garage.
    — Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026
Definition of relegated
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  • Neither of those, though, carried the expectations of five-time champion Brazil, which last won in 2002 but at least had done no worse than the quarterfinals in the five subsequent tournaments.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2026
  • SpaceX now flies roughly half the world’s orbital launches — 165 in 2025 and more than 80% of the mass carried to orbit — but its vehicles are built for its own missions.
    — Charlotte Kiang, Forbes.com, 9 July 2026
Definition of carried

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