overseas

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Recent Examples of overseas Zephro said small and medium-sized businesses like his depend on factories that are mostly overseas because regulations and taxes make manufacturing in the US difficult. Natasha Chen, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025 Election results won’t be final for a few days — absentee ballots are still rolling in from military and overseas residents, due Friday at noon. Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2025 The whole overseas series (oversea-ries? Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025 His career also included overseas stops in Spain and Venezuela. Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for overseas
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overseas
Adjective
  • Arteta ended this block of matches before the international break by being adventurous against both Newcastle and West Ham, despite slightly different personnel making up that midfield unit.
    Art de Roché, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Duran said if a homeowner must leave the country, title companies can handle the paperwork and international money transfers.
    Juan Cordoba, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Universities also rely on the program, and in 2021, one study estimated that more than a fifth of college faculty members were foreign-born.
    Patricia Lopez, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Twenty-seven percent of Californians are foreign-born.
    Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 20 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Anyone planning to bring an exotic animal into Kentucky is required to have transportation permit.
    Lillian Metzmeier, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
  • In fact, there are more exotic possibilities that cannot be ruled out, at present, as well.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • New James Webb Space Telescope observations have shed light on a distant world with no sun.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Over the centuries, Muslim traders built mosques and schools in sedate Tamale, which was more inland and distant from the direct links of the transatlantic slave and colonial trade.
    Edna Bonhomme, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • There’s a group of companies now pursuing the commercialization of fusion within a decade—not some far-off timeline.
    Jordan Blum, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Many find comfort in the belief that someday, in the far-off future, this genocide will be condemned by all.
    Literary Hub September 26, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Rensch’s parents were pulled into the group, where the young chess wiz spent his childhood running around barefoot in a remote forest village.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Visitors to the remote valley of Karma, which leads to the eastern Kangshung face of Everest, were in the hundreds this week, taking advantage of an eight-day National Day holiday in China.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
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
  • But many sports industry insiders remain convinced that the Lewis family will, at the very least, eventually explore their options, with the advice of at least one multinational financial advisory group.
    Matt Slater, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • India has showcased its naval capabilities in submarine operations during a multinational military exercise in the South China Sea, where rival China claims most of the waters.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Overseas.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overseas. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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