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verb

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Recent Examples of repatriate
Verb
Two people were repatriated to Ecuador and Colombia following a strike in mid-October. Filip Timotija, The Hill, 6 Nov. 2025 The other four – from Cuba, Laos, Vietnam and Yemen – are still being held in detention there while efforts to repatriate them are ongoing, Eswatini’s government said. CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025 The Mexican Consulate in Chicago told NBC News in a statement that the Villegas González’s family had requested their assistance and support to repatriate his remains to Michoacán. Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 18 Sep. 2025 And 70% of those executives cite the need to repatriate at least some of their applications and data on-premises. Patrick Moorhead, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for repatriate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repatriate
Noun
  • Corcoran designs greeting cards, prints and notepads in a style that is nostalgic for expatriates, said Crawford, whose mother is an expat.
    Mars King, Twin Cities, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Prior to checking in at the guesthouse, Mangione met a Japanese professional poker player at dinner in Tokyo in February and chatted with two American expatriates in Bangkok in March, The New York Times reported.
    Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The company says this capability allows guests to receive the same custom drink with consistent quality wherever an AI Barmen unit is installed.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The grocer will also receive a $50,000 retailer incentive bonus.
    Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Federal officials said the refugee review is part of a broader push to tighten legal immigration pathways and ensure that prior approvals granted during the Biden administration meet updated national security and public safety standards.
    Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Since 1993, the organization has worked across the Sacramento area, supporting refugees, immigrants and survivors of human trafficking.
    Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 9 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The discipline has built a vast array of empirical theses deep inside this single ideology—liberalism—and, in doing so, has naturalized it.
    Jason Blakely, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Americans can naturalize in other countries without risking loss of their American citizenship.
    Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 11 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Some of the poorest countries will make deals—for instance, by providing the United States with preferred access to their resources or serving as destinations for U.S. deportees.
    Adam S. Posen, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
  • But the reality is that deportees' experience of building a life in Mexico can vary dramatically, depending on their earning capacity, language and cultural skills, and other factors, said Israel Ibarra González, a professor of migration studies at Mexico's Colegio de la Frontera Norte university.
    Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Once the boat was loaded, the man in the white T-shirt waved his arms like a bandleader, leading the migrants in a chant for one of his TikTok promo videos.
    Daniel Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Levine said such motions should be granted if there is a change in the individual migrant's case, not a change in immigration policy.
    Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • One will be for African immigrants and one for immigrants from Asia.
    Michael Abeyta, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2026
  • The area is home to the largest population of Somali immigrants in the United States.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The hotel was underwritten by the local banana-growing elite as well as by Canarian emigrants who had made their fortunes in the Americas.
    Javier Montes, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Along with cargo, millions of emigrants boarded ships bound for the U.S. and Canada from nearby docks, including the likes of Albert Einstein and abstract expressionist painter Willem de Kooning (who has a 1969 painting in the galleries).
    Blane Bachelor, AFAR Media, 20 Oct. 2025

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“Repatriate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repatriate. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.

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