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Recent Examples of incomer Loeb also hopes to design—in collaboration with space agencies or companies--a launch-ready space mission to study an incomer at close quarters. Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 26 July 2021 In an overwhelmingly conservative state long dominated by the coal and timber industries, Fred Schaufeld wasn’t a typical corporate incomer. Peter Jamison, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2020 But the idea that such privileges might be under threat from incomers, either Hindu or Muslim, has now made Assam fertile ground for the BJP’s anti-Muslim drum-beat. Joseph Allchin, The New York Review of Books, 6 Jan. 2020 Among the missiles in its launch tubes are some designed to shoot down incomers. The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019 Other projects, like rent control, are clearly magic carpets that won’t fly: with the best intentions in the world, all rent control does is to reward the incumbents and punish the incomers. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2019 As for whether the potential incomer is married or single? Natalie Stone, PEOPLE.com, 21 Aug. 2019 By 1964 the population had jumped to 7.44 million, with Uyghurs still in the majority at 54%, but the growth was largely driven by Han incomers, who now stood at 33% of the total. James Griffiths, CNN, 8 Aug. 2019 The news is certainly something of a respite for Arsenal fans, however, as the ever-reliable David Ornstein has stated that Unai Emery's side will pip late incomers Tottenham to the signing of AS Saint-Etienne centre half Saliba. SI.com, 17 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incomer
Noun
  • Sophie Carson is a general assignment reporter who reports on religion and faith, immigrants and refugees and more.
    Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The decision, coupled with others targeting Venezuelan immigrants, leaves scores of people to face an uncertain future, particularly in South Florida, home to the largest number of TPS recipients in the entire country.
    Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Two South Florida men are behind bars on human smuggling charges after a group of migrants arrived in the Florida Keys earlier this week.
    Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
  • At the council meeting for the resolution, several migrants and their families spoke in favor of its passage, expressing their anxieties in day-to-day life, according to The Chronicle.
    Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The promise is not to sanction a handful of settlers, symbolically recognize a Palestinian state, or even to merely restrict arms sales, but to vote for an end to any US support whatsoever if there is no change.
    Jack Sheehan September 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • This broad public support for pumas could spur state wildlife agencies to explore the idea of restoring pumas in states along the East Coast where the animals were driven out decades ago by settlers, ranchers, farmers and government officials.
    Noël Fletcher, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Taking the form of an address to Jarman, Prospect imagines the emigrants who set sail at the end of Jarman’s film The Last of England returning to Britain.
    Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Americans still hoping to move to Portugal, meanwhile, might be wise to see if their preferred neighborhoods are already too saturated with fellow emigrants or tourists.
    Michael Bartiromo, The Hill, 14 June 2025

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“Incomer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incomer. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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