overseas

Definition of overseasnext

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Recent Examples of overseas China Southern Power Grid, via Guangdong Power Grid, has begun exporting its in-house solutions, including robot dogs for substation inspections in overseas markets such as Chile. Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 29 Apr. 2026 May 19 through June 12 opens one of the best travel windows of your year, with long-distance and overseas journeys especially favored. Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Apr. 2026 The overseas locations have become a magnet for celebrities, drawing stars like the Beckham family, Naomi Campbell, Idris Elba, Drake, Adrien Brody and Will Smith. Connie Ogle april 29, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2026 Ballots were already issued to military and overseas voters this month, Page said during a media briefing Wednesday morning. Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 29 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for overseas
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overseas
Adjective
  • In the past decade, the leadership of the Kinahan organization has become rich and cosmopolitan, and their life styles have started to resemble those of international businessmen more than of street hoodlums.
    Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2026
  • New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani touched on a very sensitive international debate ahead of meeting King Charles III on Wednesday by bringing up the controversial ownership of a British crown jewel.
    Doha Madani, NBC news, 30 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • In food preparation and serving jobs, another major employer of immigrants, the share of workers who were foreign-born rose from about 22% to more than 25% over the same period.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Care at home is even more dependent upon immigrants, with around 1 in 3 home health workers foreign-born.
    Allie Canal, NBC news, 13 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • Calling it Riverbank, the couple lived on a lavish estate with farms, exotic animals, concrete sculptures, greenhouses, a Dutch windmill, a Japanese garden, science laboratories and more, according to the Preservation Partners.
    Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Like athletes, musicians train to master the impossibilities of decades past, to move faster, negotiate acrobatic passages with ease, reel off complex rhythms, and produce once exotic timbres.
    Justin Davidson, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • What appears as a deep view of distant galaxies is a little richer upon close inspection.
    Big Think, Big Think, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Malloy’s philosophy challenges norms that position clinicians as distant figures.
    Nia Bowers, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • To pin our hopes on some far-off carbon capture technology is wishful thinking.
    Tom Caffery, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Set the scene The faint outline of distant mountains shapes a far-off horizon, where the spluttering of racing 4x4s belongs to another world.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Such stuff became more notable during the coronavirus pandemic, when remote production kept teams apart from one another, and kept them from hashing out differences in person.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 1 May 2026
  • Rather than a traditional full year of hands-on classroom and production studio instruction at VFS, the hybrid alternative allows a mix of online remote learning and on-campus work in downtown Vancouver to build a professional portfolio ahead of graduation.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 1 May 2026
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
Adjective
  • Mixed performance was observed at other multinational corporations, with standout brands like SK-II growing at 62 percent in March, and Cetaphil growing at 40 percent.
    Denni Hu, Footwear News, 29 Apr. 2026
  • There’s a new multinational force known as the Gang Suppression Force, with US backing, which aims to stabilize Haiti and ultimately make the country capable of functioning without the foreign force.
    Hira Humayun, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2026

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“Overseas.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overseas. Accessed 3 May. 2026.

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