noncitizen

noun

Definition of noncitizennext
as in alien

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Recent Examples of noncitizen The Justice Department said in a statement that six people would be charged with voting as a noncitizen, a misdemeanor. — Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026 Other states regularly collect lists of people who showed noncitizen forms of documentation at the DMV and compare those names to ones on the voter roll to flag potential noncitizen voters. — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2026 Martinez-Olguin sided with groups that sued over the noncitizen voting investigation surge, including the California Nurses Association and National Nurses United. — Joe Walsh, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026 On a single day late last month, a citizen and a noncitizen—one in Illinois, the other in Texas—became the most recent examples of this new reality. — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for noncitizen
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  1. alien
  2. foreigner
  3. refugee
  4. expatriate
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  • The camerawork will be even more pristine and objective than in the Cremaster cycle, like an alien’s scanning eye.
    — Zachary Woolfe, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2026
  • Instead of the cartoon alien who loves Oreos and beats up other alien bad guys, this run turns John Jones (FKA J'onn J'onnz) into an FBI agent who survives a suicide bombing and merges with an alien entity.
    — Cooper Katz McKim, NPR, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of alien
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  • On the contrary, the thought of becoming an exotic foreigner—who smelled of the sea and cited Southern temperament as grounds for her imbalances—thrilled me.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2026
  • But, beyond promises to cut benefits for migrants and foreigners, the AfD’s economic program is far from populist; the Party wants to slash corporate taxes and abolish inheritance and wealth taxes.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of foreigner
Noun
  • Kamiński left Poland as a political refugee in 1981, dreaming of American movies.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Nov. 2026
  • In the short, a group of refugees from a post-apocalyptic Earth search for a new planet to call home.
    — Matt Alt, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of refugee
Noun
  • But unlike most Israeli expatriates, his return voyage was a 10,000-mile, 30-plus-hour odyssey from a remote sheep station in the Australian outback to his village in the Galilee, in northern Israel.
    — Dina Kraft, Christian Science Monitor, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Thousands of Serb expatriates in the United States, Australia and New Zealand face the same problem.
    — Branimir Pipal, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of expatriate

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“Noncitizen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noncitizen. Accessed 15 Nov. 2026.

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