EXPATRIATED Synonyms: 34 Similar and Opposite Words

expatriated

verb

past tense of expatriate

as in exiled

to force to leave a country members of the deposed dictator's once-feared political party were expatriated as well

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Recent Examples of expatriated By the early Aughts, Christopher Hitchens, Niall Ferguson, and many others had expatriated and joined America’s vast intellectual-industrial complex. — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026

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Hanuman introduces the brothers to Sugriva, who has been exiled from his kingdom by his elder brother, Vali.

— Tamanna Nangia, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026
Karen would absolutely be a Catherine Zeta-Jones character who has been exiled to Arrakis following a particularly contentious divorce.

— Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2026

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Where liberal thought had banished the criterion of revenge from all considerations of justice, a politics of purity had brought it back.

— Dominic Erdozain, Time, 12 Nov. 2026
Despite being effectively banished from the royal family, ex-Prince Andrew might have scored an invitation to a holiday gathering.

— Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 10 Nov. 2026

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The department also cited Soili Xiomara Aparicio-Santos, a Honduran national deported in April who, according to DHS, was convicted of attempting to murder her newborn son in New York.

— Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 12 Nov. 2026
The San Diego Unified School District and members of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, an immigrants rights advocacy group, said the boy was separated from his cousins and uncle, who has been taking care of him after his father was deported last year.

— Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 10 Nov. 2026

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In Endless Awe & Agony [Pack/Create] At the tender age of 23, the Australian singer-songwriter Daine has already lived a few different musical lives, from teenaged emo pop-rap offerings (now relegated to YouTube) to a requisite hyperpop baddie era.

— Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 6 Nov. 2026
The only clunky connection on the iMac isn't even on the all-in-one desktop itself but is instead relegated to the power brick.

— Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 5 Nov. 2026

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