as in home
the land of one's birth, residence, or citizenship
tries to return every year to Italy, her homeland for the first two decades of her life
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Recent Examples of homeland
Resembling a young Nana Mouskouri, The Voice graduate sings about the bond between Greek refugees and their homeland in a touching, if slightly mournful, manner.
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Jon O'Brien, Vulture, 13 May 2025
In this provocative yet lavish and sensual biopic about controversial poet Eduard Limonov, Serebrennikov — along with co-writer and Oscar winner Paweł Pawlikowski — deepens his confrontational, love-hate exploration of his homeland’s culture and history.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 13 May 2025
Pyongyang's increasingly survivable and diverse nuclear arsenal, meanwhile, has rendered the risk of nuclear war—with catastrophic consequences for Northeast Asia and the U.S. homeland alike—more credible.
—John Feng
shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
In: Kentucky Derby Kentucky Flooding Nicole Sganga Nicole Sganga is CBS News' homeland security and justice correspondent.
—Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 3 May 2025
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Jon O'Brien, Vulture, 13 May 2025
In this provocative yet lavish and sensual biopic about controversial poet Eduard Limonov, Serebrennikov — along with co-writer and Oscar winner Paweł Pawlikowski — deepens his confrontational, love-hate exploration of his homeland’s culture and history.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 13 May 2025
Pyongyang's increasingly survivable and diverse nuclear arsenal, meanwhile, has rendered the risk of nuclear war—with catastrophic consequences for Northeast Asia and the U.S. homeland alike—more credible.
—John Feng
shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
In: Kentucky Derby Kentucky Flooding Nicole Sganga Nicole Sganga is CBS News' homeland security and justice correspondent.
—Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 3 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for homeland
Noun
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In the woods near their home, Viggo runs while Oscar chases him.—
Isadora Wandermurem,
Time,
16 May 2025
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The curved, ribbed walls of their home were made using a 5-ton, three-dimensional printer that printed generated the entire wall system of their home in 12 days.—
Sarah Sekula,
USA Today,
16 May 2025
Noun
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Bitcoin touched a record high above $111,000, and oil prices slid after Bloomberg said oil producing member countries, or OPEC+, are discussing a potential third consecutive oil production surge in July, with an output hike of 411,000 barrels a day among the options under consideration.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
23 May 2025
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Naturally, a country’s averages shouldn’t necessarily apply to everyone in that country.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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“Homeland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homeland. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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