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Claudia McKenzie, an expat living in Australia since 2016, told me in an email interview that seeing kangaroos and wallabies is typical outside cities.
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Emese MacZko, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
There are a lot of expats and people whose stories aren’t really told.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 8 Apr. 2025
There’s an unspoken rule among Koh Sang’s community of expats, known as the Permanents, not to pry into anybody’s past.
—Calum Marsh, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Over time, these two SoCal expats evolved Wooldridge into a serious commercial vineyard which includes an organic winery and creamery.
—Ben Davidson, The Mercury News, 24 Mar. 2025
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Emese MacZko, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
There are a lot of expats and people whose stories aren’t really told.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 8 Apr. 2025
There’s an unspoken rule among Koh Sang’s community of expats, known as the Permanents, not to pry into anybody’s past.
—Calum Marsh, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Over time, these two SoCal expats evolved Wooldridge into a serious commercial vineyard which includes an organic winery and creamery.
—Ben Davidson, The Mercury News, 24 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for expat
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Israeli officials have rejected that definition, arguing that descendants don’t qualify as refugees and thus don’t have the right to return to their ancestral homes in what is now Israel.—
Eugenia Yosef and Oren Liebermann,
CNN Money,
28 Apr. 2025
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What might destroy our society is not immigrants or refugees or Palestinians or women seeking abortions or trans people or any of the other assorted others that have been posited as undermining American society.—
Viet Thanh Nguyễn,
Time,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Expat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expat. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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