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For three days, Qaddoura worked recruiting volunteers to help the relief effort as more evacuees arrived in Houston.
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Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 30 Aug. 2025
The grant will also fund the installation of improved roadway signage throughout the neighborhoods to help emergency vehicles, evacuees and large trucks navigate the roadways and the creation of a reusable banner series to educate residents about wildfire resilience.
—Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 17 Aug. 2025
The same lawmakers who once expressed outrage over the Afghanistan withdrawal are now silent as those evacuees — and many others — are funneled into a militarized detention system.
—Chris Purdy, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
The district's school resource officer, Toni Olson, who is also a member of the Germantown Police Department, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that a Super 8 hotel near the Performing Arts Center offered rooms for evacuees who needed somewhere to stay overnight.
—Alec Johnson, jsonline.com, 13 Aug. 2025
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Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 30 Aug. 2025
The grant will also fund the installation of improved roadway signage throughout the neighborhoods to help emergency vehicles, evacuees and large trucks navigate the roadways and the creation of a reusable banner series to educate residents about wildfire resilience.
—Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 17 Aug. 2025
The same lawmakers who once expressed outrage over the Afghanistan withdrawal are now silent as those evacuees — and many others — are funneled into a militarized detention system.
—Chris Purdy, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
The district's school resource officer, Toni Olson, who is also a member of the Germantown Police Department, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that a Super 8 hotel near the Performing Arts Center offered rooms for evacuees who needed somewhere to stay overnight.
—Alec Johnson, jsonline.com, 13 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evacuee
refugee
Noun
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Afghan refugees like him await their asylum decisions in an increasingly hostile climate marked by ICE raids and deportations.—
Vidushi Mishti Sharma,
Rolling Stone,
24 Oct. 2025
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These include executive orders and regulatory changes to enforce immigration laws more strictly, pause or restrict refugee resettlement, reinstate rapid-expulsion policies like Title 42, expedite deportations, and increase border barrier construction.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Evacuee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evacuee. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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