evacuees

plural of evacuee
as in refugees
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 evacuees Another notice is on the hunt for fire relief volunteers who help fire evacuees. Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Sep. 2025 Same as 20 years ago, when some Katrina evacuees navigated such injustices. Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025 For 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 In collaboration with Polish architects, a foundation spotlighted in the exhibit repurposes old windows for reuse, allowing evacuees to return home. Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2025 Locals had been ordered to evacuate earlier that day but by Sunday afternoon, the Horry County Fire Rescue said Carolina Forest evacuees could return home. Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025 Southern California's 211 network later would leap into action in a similar way, assisting thousands of evacuees from the Pacific Palisades, Altadena and Pasadena neighborhoods of Los Angeles find emergency housing, financial aid and community resources as their communities burned to the ground. Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evacuees
refugees
Noun
  • Benicio del Toro’s Sensei oversees a sprawling apartment building that harbors refugees.
    Pat Saperstein, Variety, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Gaza is home to the highest number of child amputees per capita worldwide, the head of the UN’s agency for Palestine refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, said on Wednesday.
    Christina Macfarlane, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025

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“Evacuees.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evacuees. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.

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