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Recent Examples of evacuee
The attack has had sweeping political implications, including changes to federal asylum and immigration reviews for thousands of Afghan evacuees who arrived under Operation Allies Welcome.
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Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
However, the evacuees were never allowed to return, and the dogs left at the exclusion zone were abandoned and considered strays.
—Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 7 Dec. 2025
Parole was designed to be a stopgap measure while the evacuees applied for permanent forms of legal status, such as asylum or Special Immigrant Visas for those who assisted the American war effort.
—Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025
The Urals, Siberia, the middle Volga, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan eventually received sixteen million evacuees, perhaps the most ever moved across land by a single directive.
—Joan Silber, New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2025
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Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
However, the evacuees were never allowed to return, and the dogs left at the exclusion zone were abandoned and considered strays.
—Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 7 Dec. 2025
Parole was designed to be a stopgap measure while the evacuees applied for permanent forms of legal status, such as asylum or Special Immigrant Visas for those who assisted the American war effort.
—Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025
The Urals, Siberia, the middle Volga, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan eventually received sixteen million evacuees, perhaps the most ever moved across land by a single directive.
—Joan Silber, New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evacuee
refugee
Noun
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Al-Habil, a Hamas cell commander, was killed in the airstrike in Gaza City’s Shati refugee camp, the IDF said in a statement.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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Another strike hit Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, killing one person and wounding another, according to health officials at Shifa Hospital.—
Wafaa Shurafa,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Evacuee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evacuee. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
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