homelands

plural of homeland
as in homes
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 homelands Seminole and Miccosukee people denounced it as a threat to their sacred homelands. The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2026 The lessons of the civil rights movement, the language and songs of homelands, our stories, music and cuisines, have so much power. Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026 But this is another story entirely, full of its own complications of immigration and homelands and politics, a story of a difficult and fractured relationship with a parent, a story of a debilitating disease. Literary Hub, 20 July 2026 Still, the majority of workers in the Gulf countries have chosen to stay given the absence of better economic opportunities in their homelands. Sarah Yerkes, Time, 10 July 2026 In the 1700s, when West Africans were shackled and shipped to the South Carolina–Georgia seaboard, some were forced to work in rice paddies, in cotton fields, and on indigo plantations, where the moist climate resembled that of their homelands. Jeanne Malle, Air Mail, 4 July 2026 In the midst of turmoil and war between his two homelands, one young Iranian business owner living in Los Angeles is working to merge history with a cultural movement as more Iranian Americans find an appetite for learning more about their culture and history. Rudabeh Shahbazi, CBS News, 22 June 2026 The Tohono O’odham have continued to welcome outsiders, including the federal government, even when those outsiders have sought to exert further control over the O’odham’s ancestral homelands. Geraldo L. Cadava, The Atlantic, 20 June 2026 Best friends Fernando Delgado and Josh Lee are still riding the high of seeing both their homelands — Mexico and South Korea — win their opening matches at the 2026 World Cup. Juliana Kim, NPR, 17 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for homelands
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  • The initial phases of Heartwood at Richmond Hill include an industrial park, retail spaces near the I-95 interchange, a three-school campus and about 1,000 homes.
    Adam Van Brimmer, AJC.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • OpenAI and Anthropic employees could theoretically pool their IPO windfalls and buy nearly 29% of all homes in the San Francisco metro area, according to Redfin.
    Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
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  • The group noted that more than 140,000 Haitians have been deported from neighboring countries, including the Dominican Republic, in the first half of the year alone.
    CBS News, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Asteri has nine stores in Saudi Arabia, in addition to locations in other countries in the Middle East.
    Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 21 Aug. 2026

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“Homelands.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homelands. Accessed 22 Aug. 2026.

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