overseas

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Recent Examples of overseas President Donald Trump arrived in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for his first major overseas trip since retaking office, hoping to secure major deals on trade and diplomatic breakthroughs across the Middle East. Chris Massaro, FOXNews.com, 13 May 2025 Originally Published: May 10, 2025 at 6:22 AM PDT Most Popular Most Popular San Diego’s newest overseas nonstop flight takes off A woman drove into a San Diego military facility by mistake. Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2025 Some overseas players have already left India with 16 matches still to play before the IPL’s conclusion on May 25. Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 9 May 2025 During Queen Elizabeth's reign, approximately 1.3 million cards were sent to mark birthdays and anniversaries across the U.K., the Realms and the overseas territories, per Buckingham Palace. Meredith Kile, People.com, 1 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for overseas
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Adjective
  • Nobody said international diplomacy was going to be easy.
    Daniel DePetris, Chicago Tribune, 20 May 2025
  • New international frameworks will need to be developed to address these challenges.
    Aaron Shattuck, Scientific American, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • For those in Miami, a place where more than half of the population is foreign-born, how the Catholic Church views and handles immigration issues is important, said many people who spoke with the Herald.
    Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 7 May 2025
  • In Florida, where almost 28% of all jobs are held by immigrants, the industry with the highest concentration of immigrant labor isn’t the resort industry but construction, in which 11.1% of employees are foreign-born.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2025
Adjective
  • Invasive Burmese pythons ended up in Florida wilderness via the exotic pet trade of the 1970s and ’80s.
    Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 19 May 2025
  • These animals are often exploited through the exotic pet trade, kept in unsafe, inhumane conditions that threaten both their welfare and public safety.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • Dan, who secured 20.89% in the first round, was a distant second.
    Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 19 May 2025
  • Its Dragonfly mission will launch in July 2028 atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket and reach the distant moon in 2034.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • The mass of seaweed, which piles up on beaches and collects around marinas and docks, is also forming earlier than usual out in far-off ocean waters.
    Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 9 May 2025
  • That with nearly full employment voters would care more about the far-off prospect of creating manufacturing jobs rather than the several thousand dollars more a year tariffs would cost them?
    Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Colorful Bocas Town is lively, with a concentrated center of bars, restaurants, and shops, but more remote reaches of the island are home to forests, beaches, and even boutique resorts with luxe overwater bungalows.
    Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 11 May 2025
  • Reports from the time said around 100 people, mostly volunteers, searched throughout remote and woodsy Trinity County.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • The growth of shadow IoT devices at the enterprise level and the lax implementation of security rules for IoT device makers present a serious risk to multinational corporations.
    Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
  • Putting the upfronts presentation on YouTube really underscores late-night hosts’ secondary duty of being a mascot for their multinational corporation.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 16 May 2025

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“Overseas.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overseas. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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