overseas

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Recent Examples of overseas The five nominees for Top Global Hit From Japan were selected using Spotify’s voting feature, and they were voted on by general overseas Spotify listeners. Billboard Japan, Billboard, 12 June 2025 In a rare moment speaking to overseas media, Pdogg tells Rolling Stone that his process begins with personally connecting with an artist to hear what’s on their mind and conceptualizing an initial song. Jeff Benjamin, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2025 Congressional Republicans have long argued that the president profited from his son's and brother's overseas business deals, which the family denied. Bart Jansen, USA Today, 6 June 2025 Hunter Biden was convicted last year on federal gun charges and pleaded guilty to tax crimes related to his overseas deals. Marshall Cohen, CNN Money, 6 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for overseas
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  • Think of something in this respect like a better passing Bogdan Bogdanovic, who has averaged 14 points per game over eight years in the NBA and has also been sneaky awesome in the playoffs and big international events.
    Sam Vecenie, New York Times, 26 June 2025
  • But more than 20 years after Jeffrey Lawson's operation, an international research team found evidence that the brains of newborn premature babies react to pain stimuli in a very similar way to those of adults.
    Christian Wolf, Scientific American, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • Since then, every first overall pick has been either a minority, foreign-born, or both.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 26 June 2025
  • About one-third of construction workers are foreign-born, the Harvard study found—about twice the rate of the overall labor force.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • It’s become soldered to my identity, serving as both the ultimate in-group badge and a versatile stylistic accessory: eye-catching, a bit exotic, an opportunity to add color and flair.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 21 June 2025
  • Set theorists have continued to define cardinals that are far more exotic and difficult to describe than Cantor’s.
    Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • Growing up, my family would occasionally pile into the car and drive to distant locations for very brief vacations.
    Jason Foodman, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • The Iranian regime’s nuclear ambitions are not some distant diplomatic dispute.
    Laurence Milstein, Sun Sentinel, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • There was a slight two-hour delay initially, and once the service was activated, participants cited unusually long wait times and far-off pickup locations in some cases.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 23 June 2025
  • In the summer months, turquoise pools bloom on the glacier’s surface and the boom of far-off avalanches thunders across the white wilderness.
    Chloe Berge, Outside Online, 17 June 2025
Adjective
  • For people with disabilities, remote work may have opened doors they (literally) couldn’t go through before, making RTW an unlikely prospect.
    Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 28 June 2025
  • Set on a 1,200-acre estate, this remote nature resort (which opened in 2022 with a modernist bathhouse and beachfront baths) may seem like the only hint of human habitation around—but the site has deep roots in Icelandic history.
    Zoe Baillargeon, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2025
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  • 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
  • The lizard may also have or spread nonindigenous parasites or pathogens to native wildlife.
    Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2024
Adjective
  • An American multinational payment card services corporation, Visa was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
    Randy Bean, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • And then, tying that in with a kind of multinational, espionage thriller that never really stops moving.
    Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 19 June 2025

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“Overseas.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overseas. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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