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Recent Examples of noncitizen
The law had previously only been invoked three times in U.S. history, including during World War II, when it was used to justify the detention of noncitizens from Italy, Germany and Japan.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2025
From unilaterally freezing federal funding to the use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport noncitizens, the clashes have raised concerns about the separation of powers and the potential for a constitutional crisis.
—Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 15 Apr. 2025
The court specifically stayed both the termination regulation published on March 25 and all individualized notices sent to noncitizens informing them their parole was being revoked without case-by-case review.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2025
Yet before the press arrived, Trump shared a different, less equivocal message with El Salvador’s dictatorial president, Nayib Bukele, who has already built sprawling maximum-security complexes in service of Trump’s scheme to deport noncitizens out of legal reach.
—Michael Wilner, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2025
From unilaterally freezing federal funding to the use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport noncitizens, the clashes have raised concerns about the separation of powers and the potential for a constitutional crisis.
—Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 15 Apr. 2025
The court specifically stayed both the termination regulation published on March 25 and all individualized notices sent to noncitizens informing them their parole was being revoked without case-by-case review.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2025
Yet before the press arrived, Trump shared a different, less equivocal message with El Salvador’s dictatorial president, Nayib Bukele, who has already built sprawling maximum-security complexes in service of Trump’s scheme to deport noncitizens out of legal reach.
—Michael Wilner, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for noncitizen
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By the time the third movie in the franchise rolls around, the zombies, cheerleaders, and werewolves face off with a group of invading aliens with uncertain intentions and (no spoilers) an unexpected secret about Addison’s true identity is revealed.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
22 Apr. 2025
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Eventually the aliens will slip up and do something unhuman a little too nonchalantly.—
Bluesky Social,
Bluesky Social,
22 Apr. 2025
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Athletic were founded in 1898 and originally played with foreigners after British workers and Basque students who had lived there brought football to Bilbao.—
Tomás Hill López-Menchero,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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For a country with more than thirty trillion dollars in outstanding government debt, about eight trillion of which is owned by foreigners, the spectre of a weakened Treasury bond market is alarming.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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Israeli officials have rejected that definition, arguing that descendants don’t qualify as refugees and thus don’t have the right to return to their ancestral homes in what is now Israel.—
Eugenia Yosef and Oren Liebermann,
CNN Money,
28 Apr. 2025
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What might destroy our society is not immigrants or refugees or Palestinians or women seeking abortions or trans people or any of the other assorted others that have been posited as undermining American society.—
Viet Thanh Nguyễn,
Time,
28 Apr. 2025
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Loser of the Week Michael McMahon, a retired NYPD sergeant turned private detective, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for his part in harassing and stalking a Chinese expatriate named Xu Jin, who is wanted by his homeland’s government.—
Thomas Brewster,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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This work provided a full understanding of Japanese business culture and granted her the opportunity to live for five years as an expatriate in Silicon Valley.—
Jason Phillips,
USA TODAY,
28 Feb. 2025
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“Noncitizen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noncitizen. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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