deported

past tense of deport

Example Sentences

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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
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • The tribunal convicted one official and acquitted the other, but the bombmaker's possible identity remained a mystery for years.
    CBS News, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026
  • He was acquitted in 2020, but was swiftly rearrested on charges linking him to Turkey’s 2016 coup attempt.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • According to Briones, the pair initially entered the restaurant and behaved like regular customers.
    Ivan Taylor, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The incident was quickly followed by a slew of other companies reporting instances where AI agents behaved in unexpected ways.
    Tom Matsuda, Vogue, 25 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • Norman carried his district and the upstate, where the Grahams were raised and where conservative voters had been most critical of the late senator.
    David Weigel, semafor.com, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Ukraine resumed drone attacks on Moscow overnight into Wednesday morning, the city's Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said, hours after the departure of the plane that carried CIA Director John Ratcliffe to Moscow for an unannounced visit on Tuesday morning.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 26 Aug. 2026

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“Deported.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deported. Accessed 27 Aug. 2026.

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