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
South Africa’s Border Management Authority says more than 13,000 foreign nationals – including about 9,000 Malawians, 3,000 Zimbabweans, 900 Ghanaians, and 300 Nigerians – have either been voluntarily repatriated or deported in the last fortnight.
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Nimi Princewill,
CNN Money,
29 June 2026
Rubio was set to be deported and spent five months at Delaney Hall.
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Christine Sloan,
CBS News,
27 June 2026
The people who already have been given final orders of removal, those are the ones who are most vulnerable to being deported.
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Dana Taylor,
USA Today,
26 June 2026
The film follows Iranian Amir, who is waiting to hear if his refugee status in Germany will be accepted or whether he’ll be deported.
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Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
26 June 2026
Following the conquest of the Philippines, hundreds of American veterans were charged under the vagrancy laws as civilians and deported back to the United States.
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H.m.a. Leow,
JSTOR Daily,
26 June 2026
Men from Cuba, Myanmar and Laos who were deported to South Sudan in May 2025 remain in detention there today.
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Elizabeth Shackelford,
Chicago Tribune,
26 June 2026
The Republican governor said 21,000 people were deported through the facility.
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Jeffrey Collins,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2026
Sponzo ordered more than a dozen young people deported before lunchtime.
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E. Tammy Kim,
New Yorker,
20 June 2026
Nimi Princewill,
CNN Money,
29 June 2026
Rubio was set to be deported and spent five months at Delaney Hall.
—
Christine Sloan,
CBS News,
27 June 2026
The people who already have been given final orders of removal, those are the ones who are most vulnerable to being deported.
—
Dana Taylor,
USA Today,
26 June 2026
The film follows Iranian Amir, who is waiting to hear if his refugee status in Germany will be accepted or whether he’ll be deported.
—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
26 June 2026
Following the conquest of the Philippines, hundreds of American veterans were charged under the vagrancy laws as civilians and deported back to the United States.
—
H.m.a. Leow,
JSTOR Daily,
26 June 2026
Men from Cuba, Myanmar and Laos who were deported to South Sudan in May 2025 remain in detention there today.
—
Elizabeth Shackelford,
Chicago Tribune,
26 June 2026
The Republican governor said 21,000 people were deported through the facility.
—
Jeffrey Collins,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2026
Sponzo ordered more than a dozen young people deported before lunchtime.
—
E. Tammy Kim,
New Yorker,
20 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deported
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Nearby sits a family of Chaldean Christians exiled from Iraq—an anxious archeologist, his pregnant radiologist wife, and his imperious mother, who bought a bulletproof Maybach to transport her daughter-in-law to the hospital for the delivery.
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Additionally, religious community leaders were imprisoned or exiled.
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In a dissenting opinion, a member of the panel, Andi Saputra, argued that there was not enough evidence and Marakim should be acquitted.
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Babeuf was betrayed by an informant, put on trial in 1797, and eventually acquitted of conspiracy, but he was executed for committing his ideas about inequality to print.
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There’s no chance Cannes Lions will be the next one banished from the game if this year is anything to go by.
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Julius Randle has been banished to NBA Siberia (Brooklyn).
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And the institutions built on treating people as averages started to lag behind a reality that no longer behaved that way.
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What matters most is that the E3800LFP consistently behaved like a serious backup platform throughout testing.
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They are relegated to atmosphere, anecdote, trace, background hum.
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By the next year, the Challenge Cup had become a preseason tournament, already relegated to a competition without a clear purpose within the NWSL hierarchy.
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Fujimori’s presidency marks a return of her family’s political brand to Peru’s highest office — a movement that has long carried a complicated relationship with the United States.
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Since relocating to Los Angeles, Gonzalez’s small downtown team has scaled Happy Organics into a design-forward brand carried by major retailers, anchored in local maker communities and a sense of purpose.
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“Deported.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deported. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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