OVERSEAS Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

overseas

adjective

Definition of overseas

as in international

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Recent Examples of overseas Washington denounces Cuba’s overseas medical missions as exploitative and presses allies to drop them, but Calabria’s governor says losing the doctors would cripple care and vows to keep them. — Paolo Santalucia, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026 Of course, there’s the concern of how previous overseas talent has fared at UCLA as a roster with five European players in their first year of college basketball sputtered to a 16-17 season in 2023-24. — Aaron Heisen, Daily News, 9 July 2026 And the elections offices have already printed up the ballots and sent them to overseas and military voters. — Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 July 2026 Germany sent an armored brigade of 5,000 soldiers to Lithuania to shore up NATO’s eastern flank, for example, marking the first permanent overseas deployment of German forces since World War II. — Anna Mulrine Grobe, Christian Science Monitor, 8 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for overseas

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Adjective

Meanwhile, Burberry unveiled a hyper-British, globally resonant campaign, A Good Sport, leaning on a cast of national and international names.

— Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 16 July 2026
Babak Dehghanpisheh Babak Dehghanpisheh is an NBC News Digital international editor based in New York.

— Abigail Williams, NBC news, 16 July 2026

Definition of international

Adjective

Fearful of invading marauders, humankind has turned distrustful and stingy, ignoring Zeus’ command to show generosity toward the poor and foreign-born, a cornerstone of faith that would later be repurposed in the New Testament.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026
Images from those strikes show miners of varied racial and ethnic backgrounds – white and Black, American- and foreign-born – wearing red bandanas.

— Catherine Simpson Bueker, The Conversation, 1 July 2026

Definition of foreign-born

Adjective

At the festival, the organization covers the cost of a free youth zone that includes face painters, balloon artists, character artists, puppet shows and an exotic petting zoo.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 13 July 2026
Meanwhile closer to home, Palo Laziale’s woodland, an area of hygrophilous forest and exotic plants, is a World Wildlife Fund protected reserve.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 July 2026

Definition of exotic

Adjective

Nonlocality, whose experimental verification helped earn the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, allows distant quantum systems to produce correlations that cannot be explained by classical physics alone.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 18 July 2026
That can change, but this is probably measured in decades, not years—and seems more distant today than in the recent past.

— Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak, Fortune, 17 July 2026

Definition of distant

Adjective

Piano notes ring out to represent stars and far-off galaxies.

— Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 4 July 2026
That’s the state Supergirl is in when she is dragged into a local dispute on some far-off planet, defending the honor of an orphaned teenage girl, Ruthye (Eve Ridley); her parents were murdered by a brigand named Krem of the Yellow Hills (Matthias Schoenaerts).

— David Sims, The Atlantic, 26 June 2026

Definition of far-off

Adjective

Always carry a physical guidebook or printed hike details in a waterproof bag as a backup, since batteries die and cell coverage on remote trails is often nonexistent.

— Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 July 2026
Instead of using a remote or control panel, the player moves into position and signals with a simple hand gesture for the ball, and the AI biometrics locate and pinpoint the player position.

— Shirl Leigh July 13, New Atlas, 13 July 2026

Definition of remote

Adjective

Many winemakers in Bolgheri and throughout Tuscany use nonindigenous grapes such as Syrah, Merlot, and Cabernet Sauvignon either alone or in a blend.

— Mike DeSimone, Robb Report, 27 June 2025
Much of Washington Heights is old farmland The area's earliest nonindigenous civilization in the Washington Heights area began in 1835.

— Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2024

Definition of nonindigenous

Adjective

Namibia has also prevented Starlink from entering its telecoms markets over local ownership rules that have become a point of contention for multinational firms operating in Africa.

— Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 17 July 2026
Apple is readying its iPhone 18 family for release in September, and Greater China, as multinational corporations like to call it, accounts for upwards of 20% of Apple’s global revenue.

— Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 16 July 2026

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