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Recent Examples of evacuee
However, the evacuees were never allowed to return, and the dogs left at the exclusion zone were abandoned and considered strays.
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Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 7 Dec. 2025
World Relief is one of the refugee resettlement agencies that assisted in the relocation of Afghan evacuees.
—Kiki Intarasuwan, 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
On the second night after the blaze, dozens of evacuees set up mattresses in a nearby mall, many saying official evacuation centres should be saved for those in greater need.
—Joyce Zhou, USA Today, 28 Nov. 2025
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Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 7 Dec. 2025
World Relief is one of the refugee resettlement agencies that assisted in the relocation of Afghan evacuees.
—Kiki Intarasuwan, 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
On the second night after the blaze, dozens of evacuees set up mattresses in a nearby mall, many saying official evacuation centres should be saved for those in greater need.
—Joyce Zhou, USA Today, 28 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evacuee
refugee
Noun
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In one strike, a 13-year-old, his father and a 22-year-old man were hit by Israeli drones on the eastern side of the central Bureij refugee camp, according to officials from Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central town of Deir al-Balah, which received the bodies.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
22 Jan. 2026
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The Hmong ethnic group began migrating to Minnesota in the 1970s as refugees.—
Nicole Sganga,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Evacuee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evacuee. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
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