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Recent Examples of evacuees
Stanton evacuees return home CBS LA She and her family evacuated their home on Friday.
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Lauren Pozen, CBS News, 28 May 2026
Late Monday, officials allowed 65% of evacuees to return home, saying the threat of a catastrophic blast from the overheated container at GKN Aerospace had lessened.
—Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 26 May 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
One French passenger showed symptoms while flying home, and all five evacuees on that flight will enter isolation protocols, the country’s prime minister said.
—Vasco Cotovio, CNN Money, 10 May 2026
The plane to be used to repatriate Dutch and other nationals stands idle at the Tenerife Sur-Reina Sofia Airport awaiting evacuees from the Hondius on Sunday.
—Phil Helsel, NBC news, 10 May 2026
The evacuees — the ship's British doctor, 56; a Dutch national, 41; and a German national, 65 — were being transferred directly to specialist hospitals.
—Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 7 May 2026
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
Lauren Pozen, CBS News, 28 May 2026
Late Monday, officials allowed 65% of evacuees to return home, saying the threat of a catastrophic blast from the overheated container at GKN Aerospace had lessened.
—Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 26 May 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
One French passenger showed symptoms while flying home, and all five evacuees on that flight will enter isolation protocols, the country’s prime minister said.
—Vasco Cotovio, CNN Money, 10 May 2026
The plane to be used to repatriate Dutch and other nationals stands idle at the Tenerife Sur-Reina Sofia Airport awaiting evacuees from the Hondius on Sunday.
—Phil Helsel, NBC news, 10 May 2026
The evacuees — the ship's British doctor, 56; a Dutch national, 41; and a German national, 65 — were being transferred directly to specialist hospitals.
—Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 7 May 2026
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evacuees
refugees
Noun
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While Colombia, Germany and Turkey hosted more than 2 million refugees each, the majority live in low- to middle-income countries.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 June 2026
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McLean Presbyterian Church, where my wife and I attend, set up a program to assist Afghan refugees in the immediate aftermath of the American withdrawal in 2021.—
Peter Wehner,
The Atlantic,
10 June 2026
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“Evacuees.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evacuees. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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