overseas

Definition of overseasnext

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Recent Examples of overseas Geopolitical tensions and overseas conflicts, meanwhile, have caused significant market disruptions and caused interest rates to become more volatile. Matt Richardson, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026 Then add recurring overseas payments. Fazila Shahid Lodhi, Idaho Statesman, 8 Apr. 2026 Bernard, who has never played a snap of football, was accepted as a member of this year’s IPP class — which names a yearly crop of overseas prospects discovered at camps across the world — and went to train for three months in Florida. Luca Evans, Denver Post, 7 Apr. 2026 The Continental Congress understood that the fledgling United States could not withstand British military might without receiving overseas shipments of gold and gunpowder, in addition to warships, sailors and soldiers. Christopher Magra, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for overseas
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Adjective
  • But now many of those same factions are expressing open revulsion at the Iran war, rupturing relationships that were supposed to usher in a new international order.
    ABC News, ABC News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • This year brought together our international editions across Glamour US, UK, Germany, Spain, and Mexico for a new Best in the World category.
    Glamour, Glamour, 9 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
  • In 2003, a shipment of exotic African rodents to a pet store in Illinois sparked the United States' first mpox outbreak.
    Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 9 Apr. 2026
  • An exotic favorite Tai Er Sichuan Cuisine has quietly opened a new restaurant in the South Bay, and this special dish is packing them in.
    Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The war is a distant drumbeat, its threat ever audible to Steele’s underemployed, eminently draftable characters from 9,000 miles away.
    Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The 2025 rediscoveries serve as a reminder that even species unseen for decades may still persist in remote corners of the world — and that the work of birdwatchers and researchers scanning distant forests and islands continues to make a difference.
    Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The Final Four is in sigh For many hopeful young athletes, the chance to play for a national championship no longer feels like a far-off dream.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Pink noise is considered balanced and consistent (think of a far-off waterfall) though not as mid-range as green noise.
    Laura Kiniry, Popular Science, 25 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Young Alfred Tennyson grew up in a similarly provincial bit of England, tucked away in his father’s vicarage on a remote part of the east coast of England in a village of fewer than a hundred souls.
    Kathryn Hughes, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The cave system was significantly impacted by construction of the Maya Train under former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, intended to connect Tulum and other tourist destinations to remote areas.
    Ryan Brennan April 4, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 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
  • Stephen Cook, the group’s attorney, is based in the Irvine office of the multinational law firm Brown Rudnick.
    Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The forgeries’ provenance traced their passage through Italian auction houses and exposed a multinational network of suppliers.
    Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 9 Apr. 2026

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“Overseas.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overseas. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.

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