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Some studies find that CODAs may live in a kind of limbo, caught in the crossfire between two cultures (just as some expats do when learning a new language).
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Bob Brody, Baltimore Sun, 9 May 2026
He’s been a teenage film buyer in Cannes, a Shell Oil shill, a Steven Spielberg acolyte and, before COVID, an expat making films his way for 6 years in China.
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 29 Apr. 2026
The exact total of United States expats is difficult to pin down, notes the Association of Americans Resident Overseas (AARO).
—John Tufts, IndyStar, 23 Apr. 2026
During Covid-19 lockdowns, a magazine writer visits Thomas, his celebrated nonagenarian mentor and an European expat, intending to interview him for a career retrospective; the narrator drops his recorder into a sink and is unable to record perhaps the intellectual titan’s final word to the world.
—Hamilton Cain, Time, 4 Apr. 2026
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Bob Brody, Baltimore Sun, 9 May 2026
He’s been a teenage film buyer in Cannes, a Shell Oil shill, a Steven Spielberg acolyte and, before COVID, an expat making films his way for 6 years in China.
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 29 Apr. 2026
The exact total of United States expats is difficult to pin down, notes the Association of Americans Resident Overseas (AARO).
—John Tufts, IndyStar, 23 Apr. 2026
During Covid-19 lockdowns, a magazine writer visits Thomas, his celebrated nonagenarian mentor and an European expat, intending to interview him for a career retrospective; the narrator drops his recorder into a sink and is unable to record perhaps the intellectual titan’s final word to the world.
—Hamilton Cain, Time, 4 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for expat
refugee
Noun
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Pakistan was left to deal with the fallout from the Afghan civil war that followed, which included accepting nearly four million Afghan refugees.—
Sudarsan Raghavan,
New Yorker,
3 June 2026
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Viewers have already seen glimpses of the premiere, which involves Aang and Katara subduing a sea serpent while guiding refugees across a treacherous path.—
Entertainment Weekly,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 June 2026
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“Expat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expat. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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