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Sophie Carson is a general assignment reporter who reports on religion and faith, immigrants and refugees and more.
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Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
The poem presents the Trojans, and the future Romans of Virgil’s own time, as both the underdogs and the oppressors, both the migrants and the colonizers, both the wretched refugees and the imperial overlords.
—Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Britain had begun rebuilding, taking in refugees and moving them to safe-zone districts.
—Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 3 Sep. 2025
Three and a half years since Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine, the Sacramento community of Ukrainian immigrants and refugees gathered Sunday to celebrate their country’s declaration of independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
—Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
The poem presents the Trojans, and the future Romans of Virgil’s own time, as both the underdogs and the oppressors, both the migrants and the colonizers, both the wretched refugees and the imperial overlords.
—Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Britain had begun rebuilding, taking in refugees and moving them to safe-zone districts.
—Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 3 Sep. 2025
Three and a half years since Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine, the Sacramento community of Ukrainian immigrants and refugees gathered Sunday to celebrate their country’s declaration of independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
—Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for refugee
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Paradise Lost, Milton’s epic of civil war, exile, and a journey to a new, heavenly homeland, fuses the Aeneid with other classical and biblical models.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Sep. 2025
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Former director of the organization, Karen Celebertti, resigned in December of that year and went into exile.—
Sarah Moreno,
Miami Herald,
2 Sep. 2025
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The fugitive runs for it, crashing through clotheslines made of jump ropes, crashing on the floor several times, climbing the bike racks and leaping over the wall to his secret sanctuary.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
7 Sep. 2025
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Released in September 2025, Blood & Myth follows the Iñupiaq man and respected actor Teddy Kyle Smith, who became a fugitive following a string of violent crimes in the remote town of Kiana, Alaska.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
5 Sep. 2025
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One year after getting freaky with an alien on stage, Sabrina Carpenter returned to the VMAs on Sunday with an equally unforgettable performance, albeit for very different reasons.—
Andy Swift,
TVLine,
7 Sep. 2025
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The natural language processing is now based on Alexa, not Cerence's tech, and there's a cartoon visualization for the personal assistant that looks a bit like a ninja, or perhaps an alien.—
Jonathan M. Gitlin,
ArsTechnica,
5 Sep. 2025
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Some parents are concerned that tuition fees for international schools in Kenya could rise further with the arrival of more expatriates in the country.—
Martin K.N Siele,
semafor.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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If an investor who has not sold the IP expatriates for example, valuation of the interest will be included in determining the investor’s net worth and may subject the investor to unexpected taxes as a covered expatriate, for both income and estate tax purposes.—
Priya Prakash Royal Esq. LL.M. MBA AEP TEP,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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“Refugee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/refugee. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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