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Recent Examples of repatriate
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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for repatriate
Noun
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When there’s major news involving Venezuela, TV cameras reflexively rush to Doral, hoping to document the reactions of expatriates living in Florida.—
Anthony Man,
Sun Sentinel,
10 Jan. 2026
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Remittances by expatriates amounted to nearly $14 billion in the second quarter of the year, the most recent data available shows — an increase of about 50% since 2017.—
Matthew Martin,
semafor.com,
16 Dec. 2025
Verb
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Despite being respected by his colleagues, the author of Moby-Dick worked for six days a week in the domed and columned Merchant’s Exchange Building at 55 Wall Street and was paid $4 a day, never receiving a raise in two decades.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Jan. 2026
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Since the Westminster Mall’s more than 40 interior shops closed in late October, the Westminster Police Department has received more than 400 calls about trespassing, vandalism and other illicit activity, with 54 people being arrested on the property now in a holding pattern awaiting redevelopment.—
Victoria Le,
Oc Register,
14 Jan. 2026
Noun
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That includes a suspension of refugee programs and humanitarian parole programs.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
14 Jan. 2026
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The country currently shelters nearly 2 million refugees, the most in Africa.—
Nimi Princewill,
CNN Money,
14 Jan. 2026
Verb
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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
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Americans can naturalize in other countries without risking loss of their American citizenship.—
Center Square,
The Washington Examiner,
11 Dec. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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One of the men, a Venezuelan migrant, was shot in the leg but is expected to be OK, two of the officials told CBS News.—
WCCO Staff,
CBS News,
15 Jan. 2026
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Hundreds more Venezuelan immigrants have been sent to Alligator Alcatraz, where the Miami Herald reported that two-thirds of the more than eighteen hundred migrants detained last July had essentially disappeared from public records.—
Armando Ledezma,
New Yorker,
14 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Google, Microsoft and Uber are led by immigrants, and many people across the industry's ranks were born outside the United States.—
Joseph Menn The Washington Post,
Arkansas Online,
21 Jan. 2026
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One video pairs photos of Trump with the swooning sound of a Taylor Swift song; another mashes up a video snippet of the comedian Theo Von and shots of immigrants getting deported.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
20 Jan. 2026
Noun
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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
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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 21 Jan. 2026.
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