extradition

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Recent Examples of extradition Romanchenko remained in custody Wednesday in Florida awaiting extradition back to Pennsylvania. Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 27 May 2026 Harfuch said the man has an extradition order. David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 26 May 2026 The two detainees, who were not identified, remained in custody awaiting extradition proceedings requested by the United States. ABC News, 26 May 2026 Francisco Gonzalez was arrested in Florida and is awaiting extradition to California this week, according to officials. Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 20 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for extradition
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Noun
  • Federal law explicitly protects TPS holders from deportation while the designation is in effect.
    Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 29 May 2026
  • Brinkema said in Friday’s hearing Gyasi and her son could leave Virginia and be deported only if the government could guarantee she would no longer be held at Dulles while that deportation is processed.
    Andy Rose, CNN Money, 29 May 2026
Noun
  • The young Brooks’s disciplinary problems began with fights in primary school and culminated in his expulsion from college for threatening a policeman with a firearm.
    Rob Wolfe, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026
  • The Board of Education approves the Orange County Depart of Education’s annual budget, also hearing appeals for expulsions, charter school applications and inter-district transfers.
    Victoria Le, Oc Register, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • While Liden’s displacement and depersonalization of private property in Unheimlich Manöver could be perceived as the inversion of Darboven’s cocooning, the artists share a preoccupation with the silent speech of objects and with language as a spatial entity.
    Erika Landström, Artforum, 2 June 2026
  • The practice, at least this year, has been an Archimedean displacement of power, as Democratic contenders filled the bottom of the bath with a divided vote, and Republicans, possibly to their own surprise, rose.
    Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 1 June 2026

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“Extradition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extradition. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.

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