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Recent Examples of evacueeFor three days, Qaddoura worked recruiting volunteers to help the relief effort as more evacuees arrived in Houston.—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 See All Example Sentences for evacuee
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refugee
Noun
Afghan refugees like him await their asylum decisions in an increasingly hostile climate marked by ICE raids and deportations.
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Vidushi Mishti Sharma,
Rolling Stone,
24 Oct. 2025
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.
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