Thesaurus results for EVACUEE

evacuee

noun

i-ˌva-kyə-ˈwē

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as in refugee

a person forced to emigrate for political reasons the report said the evacuees would be placed in temporary shelters

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Recent Examples of evacuee The Red Cross has set up an overnight shelter for evacuees, including pets, at the county’s Spring Valley Community Center at 8735 Jamacha Blvd. —

Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2026 About 16,000 of roughly 50,000 evacuees are still waiting for the all clear. —

Kayla Bartkowski, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2026 Cooler overnight conditions slowed the spread, fire commanders with the Ventura County Fire Department said, allowing some evacuees to return, although 1 house had burned. —

Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 19 May 2026 It’s been a hunting pad, a retreat for pregnant evacuees and a police training centre by turns, but the acquisition by hospitality giant Ennismore heralded a glamorous new dawn. —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for evacuee

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refugee

Noun

Carroz came to California as a Hmong refugee and earned a doctorate in education, equity and democracy from the University of California, Berkeley.

— Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 24 June 2026
The plot focuses on a young man named Yahya, who must travel from Mecca to Berlin for his father’s cancer treatment, confronting past traumas and finding refuge in an encounter with a Syrian refugee nurse.

— Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 23 June 2026