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 The group noted that more than 140,000 Haitians have been deported from neighboring countries, including the Dominican Republic, in the first half of the year alone. — CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026 At least one person was deported who wasn't supposed to be, emails showed. — ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026 At least one person was deported who wasn’t supposed to be, emails showed. — Safiyah Riddle, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026 Among those being deported to Haiti are individuals placed under final deportation orders as recently as June. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 Aug. 2026 An Iranian woman in Georgia immigrant detention could soon be deported to the Central African Republic, a country unknown to her, Lautaro Grinspan reports. — Adam Beam, AJC.com, 19 Aug. 2026 Then last December, Oscar Solarzano, an undocumented immigrant who had previously been deported from the US twice, was charged in a stabbing incident on on the light rail service in Charlotte, North Carolina. — Holly Yan, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026 Shelbit hadn’t been licensed by VARA since 2025, while one of its owners was deported from the UAE in April. — Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deported
  1. exiled
  2. acquitted
  3. banished
  4. behaved
  5. relegated
  6. carried
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  • This thriller centers on disgraced or damaged agents of Britain’s MI6 intelligence service who have been exiled to a remote Greek island.
    — Monitor reviewers, Christian Science Monitor, 21 Aug. 2026
  • After British forces recaptured Delhi, much of the city was destroyed and the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar was exiled.
    — Aishwarya Lakshmi, The Conversation, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of exiled
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  • In 2023 he was acquitted of domestic abuse charges in a case that had laid bare his private life.
    — Andy Mitten, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Earlier in June, a jury acquitted Gene Evin Atkins, 36, of first-degree murder and deadlocked 10-2 on the second-degree murder charge.
    — Julie Sharp, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of acquitted
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  • Plus a few other wackadoodles banished from labels, serving out their sentences in our nuthouse.
    — Jeff Rabhan, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Ransoms were paid, with Carlos taking much of the $50 million himself, leading him to be banished from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
    — Air Mail, Air Mail, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of banished
Verb
  • The region’s leaders complained endlessly of feeling abandoned but never behaved as if abandonment were a significant possibility.
    — MARC LYNCH, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Of course, diners of all ages can be poorly behaved, but kids in restaurants tend to elicit the strongest opinions.
    — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of behaved
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  • His main competition, the geriatric Aaron Jones, should be relegated to backup duty.
    — Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 23 Aug. 2026
  • West Ham United, Burnley, and Wolverhampton Wanderers have been relegated to the second division.
    — Jason Cohen, PC Magazine, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of relegated
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  • At the celebrations, Torres was also spotted wearing a rubber bracelet with a Spain flag that carried branding from the Guardia Civil — one of the country’s two national law enforcement agencies (the other being the Policia Nacional).
    — Laia Cervelló Herrero, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Roughly 300 poles and 44 power transmission poles need to be repaired or replaced in Gary as a result of the storm, which carried winds of 99 mph (159 kilometers per hour), said Melody Birmingham, an executive at NIPSCO's parent company.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of carried

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“Deported.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deported. Accessed 25 Aug. 2026.

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