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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This thriller centers on disgraced or damaged agents of Britain’s MI6 intelligence service who have been exiled to a remote Greek island.

— Monitor reviewers, Christian Science Monitor, 21 Aug. 2026
After British forces recaptured Delhi, much of the city was destroyed and the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar was exiled.

— Aishwarya Lakshmi, The Conversation, 18 Aug. 2026

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Any doubts over whether that deal would be concluded would have been banished as soon as Riad was taken off.

— Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026
Since then, the former Duke of York has been effectively banished from royal life, including the Firm’s annual Christmas gathering at Sandringham.

— Emma Banks, InStyle, 21 Aug. 2026

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Sharma-Crawford did not say if they had already been deported.

— Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 26 Aug. 2026
In July 2025, Haiti’s justice minister, Patrick Pélissier, announced that the government had adopted a new protocol governing the judicial processing of Haitian nationals deported or extradited to the country.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 25 Aug. 2026

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