overseas

Definition of overseasnext

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Recent Examples of overseas Thailand has ordered government workers to save energy by suspending overseas trips and working from home, urging people not to panic buy. Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 13 Mar. 2026 Thailand has suspended overseas travel for civil servants and urged them to take stairs instead of elevators. Paul Wiseman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026 Stiff competition Still, there is little indication that the American automaker is primed to catch up to BYD's sizeable lead in domestic and overseas sales. Matthew Chin, CNBC, 13 Mar. 2026 Illinois has been recruiting internationally for years, including bringing in Tomislav Ivišić, Lithuanian guard Kasparas Jakučionis and Canadian forward Will Riley last season, and the coaches found out about Mirković through their overseas contacts. Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for overseas
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Adjective
  • West Texas Intermediate, the benchmark for domestic oil prices, has remained at or below $100 per barrel for nearly two weeks, while Brent Crude, the benchmark for international oil prices, has crept back up toward $110.
    Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 20 Mar. 2026
  • At the heart of it lies a dispute over the Durand Line, which Afghanistan has never formally recognized as an international border.
    Rabia Akhtar, The Conversation, 20 Mar. 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
  • That may well drive new interest in reptiles and exotic animals, particularly as Repticon returns to Aurora, Saturday, March 21-Sunday, March 22.
    John Wenzel, Denver Post, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Dumas wrote his titular character as a man of mystique and a naturally charming presence capable of holding court with a wealth of tales from exotic locales.
    Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 19 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • This property is crucial for generating quantum entanglement between distant nodes, another cornerstone of future quantum communication networks, as per the release.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 19 Mar. 2026
  • His short responses feel distant, and his hesitation comes across as disinterest.
    Big Think, Big Think, 18 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Miguel Castro Freitas’s second collection for Muglar explored the brand's defining pillars, blending the glamour of the ‘40s and ‘80s with the drama of the far-off future.
    Kevin Huynh, InStyle, 12 Mar. 2026
  • When anti‑vaxxers outweigh scientists Nowhere is that risk clearer than in the far-off corners of the internet where extreme viewpoints are often the loudest.
    Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Toyota/Lexus a few years back made the remote start a subscription service.
    Hartford Courant, Hartford Courant, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The park, which logged 29,091 visits last year, sits on a remote cluster of islands in Lake Superior near the Canadian border, so visitors can only get there by ferry or seaplane.
    Owen Clarke, Outside, 13 Mar. 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
  • The members of the new Palestinian transitional committee tasked to run postwar Gaza have still not entered the territory, and no new Palestinian police force or multinational force has been formed.
    Daniel Estrin, NPR, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Sparks and bullets fly when these opposites are partnered to track down a billion-dollar cache of deadly opioids stolen from the vault of a multinational pharmaceutical company that threaten to flood the streets of Chicago.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2026

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“Overseas.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overseas. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.

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