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Recent Examples of evacuees
All evacuees to proceed to Sutter and Meridian.
—
Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 23 Dec. 2025
Ayako Oga, 52, settled in Niigata after fleeing the area around the Fukushima plant in 2011 with 160,000 other evacuees.
—Reuters, NBC news, 22 Dec. 2025
La Jolla consignment store Little Love also supports fire evacuees by donating 100 trash bags full of community donations and 30 to 40 boxes of diapers.
—Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Dec. 2025
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.
—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
World Relief is one of the refugee resettlement agencies that assisted in the relocation of Afghan evacuees.
—Kiki Intarasuwan, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025
Another notice is on the hunt for fire relief volunteers who help fire evacuees.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Sep. 2025
About half of the evacuees stayed for a few weeks before finding their way back to Louisiana or other places, mostly in the South, where family and friends could take them in.
—Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 23 Dec. 2025
Ayako Oga, 52, settled in Niigata after fleeing the area around the Fukushima plant in 2011 with 160,000 other evacuees.
—Reuters, NBC news, 22 Dec. 2025
La Jolla consignment store Little Love also supports fire evacuees by donating 100 trash bags full of community donations and 30 to 40 boxes of diapers.
—Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Dec. 2025
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.
—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
World Relief is one of the refugee resettlement agencies that assisted in the relocation of Afghan evacuees.
—Kiki Intarasuwan, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025
Another notice is on the hunt for fire relief volunteers who help fire evacuees.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Sep. 2025
About half of the evacuees stayed for a few weeks before finding their way back to Louisiana or other places, mostly in the South, where family and friends could take them in.
—Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evacuees
refugees
Noun
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The country currently shelters nearly 2 million refugees, the most in Africa.—
Nimi Princewill,
CNN Money,
14 Jan. 2026
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The Arabs deliberately placed the Arab refugees and their descendants in refugee camps as pawns in the propaganda war against Israel.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
14 Jan. 2026
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“Evacuees.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evacuees. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.
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