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a people having a common language, culture, and body of traditions New York City may have more nationalities than any other metropolis in the world

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Recent Examples of nationality Some of the victims were foreign nationals, though authorities have not disclosed specifics regarding their identities or nationalities. Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025 Officials have not released the victims' identities or nationalities, but Reuters reported that foreign nationals were among the dead. Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025 Conducted annually since 2014, the study gathered insights from more than 10,000 expats representing 172 nationalities living in countries and territories worldwide. Ernestine Siu, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025 The government has framed the law as an effort to modernize family law and clarify nationality rules, but rights advocates are likely to call out the restrictions on LGBTQ practices and limits imposed on legal recourse in nationality cases. CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nationality
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Noun
  • However, Miranda Cosgrove did disclose her full ethnicity in a recent interview, thanks to DNA testing.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 12 Sep. 2025
  • This disastrously cramped conception of who gets to have a day in court would be the main target of my outrage if the court’s opinion on the use of ethnicity, language and workplace as factors in immigration enforcement weren’t even more upsetting.
    Noah Feldman, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • America is a nation shaped by political violence and steeped in its aftershocks.
    Eric Cortellessa, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Modi was responding to a post by Trump on Truth Social, which said that New Delhi and Washington were continuing negotiations to address the trade barriers between both nations.
    Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Nationality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nationality. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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