Thesaurus results for DEPORTEE

deportee

noun

ˌdē-ˌpȯr-ˈtē

as in refugee

a person forced to emigrate for political reasons the deportee vowed that he would someday return to a liberated nation

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Recent Examples of deportee The southern state of Oaxaca had the fifth-highest number of Mexican deportees — 9,133. —

Steve Fisher, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Mar. 2026 And 60 Minutes temporarily held a segment about the El Salvadorian prison the Trump administration sent some deportees to. —

David Goldman, CNN Money, 27 Feb. 2026 Documents ranged from official descriptions of the cotton experiment led by engineer Eduardo Chávez on the Mexican side of the US-Mexico border to inventories listing of the belongings carried by deportees returning to Mexico. —

Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026 Laos only started accepting deportees from the United States in 2025. —

Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 10 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for deportee

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refugee

Noun

Aida, receiving word that her sons – who were taken by Serbian forces — may be alive and held in a camp, launches a desperate search through a refugee center crowded with thousands of displaced women.

— Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 15 Apr. 2026
In 2015, Germany opened its doors to almost a million refugees, most of them from Syria, taking in almost 3 million in the decade between then and 2024.

— Sebastian Shukla, CNN Money, 15 Apr. 2026