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Recent Examples of repatriate
ABC News, 4 Mar. 2026
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said last week his country will not repatriate its citizens with links to Islamic State members.
—Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 25 Feb. 2026
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Wednesday reiterated his position announced a day earlier that his government would not help repatriate the latest group.
—Rod McGuirk, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
His client’s wish — to repatriate the objects and honor Thailand’s cultural heritage — rang always in his ears.
—Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 24 Jan. 2026
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Verb
Amid the travel chaos and with commercial flights limited, governments across the globe have been mounting emergency operations to try to repatriate their citizens.
—ABC News, 4 Mar. 2026
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said last week his country will not repatriate its citizens with links to Islamic State members.
—Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 25 Feb. 2026
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Wednesday reiterated his position announced a day earlier that his government would not help repatriate the latest group.
—Rod McGuirk, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
His client’s wish — to repatriate the objects and honor Thailand’s cultural heritage — rang always in his ears.
—Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 24 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for repatriate
Noun
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The city’s gravitational pull operates differently, and more powerfully, for the billions in the Global South than for the few Western expatriates who fled at the first missile alert.—
Bobby Ghosh,
Time,
8 Apr. 2026
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Flights in and out of the Middle East came to a near-complete stop, stranding residents, expatriates, and tourists alike, even as Iran struck the region’s most crowded cities and luxury hotels.—
Britannica Editors,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
31 Mar. 2026
Verb
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In states that don’t conform to the federal tax changes, workers who receive a federal tax deduction for tips or overtime still will owe state taxes on those earnings.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 Apr. 2026
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Middleton also received the endorsement from another Republican candidate, Aaron Reitz.—
Jack Fink
April 12,
CBS News,
12 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Aida, receiving word that her sons – who were taken by Serbian forces — may be alive and held in a camp, launches a desperate search through a refugee center crowded with thousands of displaced women.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
15 Apr. 2026
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In 2015, Germany opened its doors to almost a million refugees, most of them from Syria, taking in almost 3 million in the decade between then and 2024.—
Sebastian Shukla,
CNN Money,
15 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Brown, of Cornell Law School, said these announcements could have prompted some otherwise hesitant people to naturalize before these rules went into effect — or in anticipation of further rules.—
Ximena Bustillo,
NPR,
13 Apr. 2026
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Many wanted to partake in this life (preferably on the inside of the buildings), and some prominent influencers—such as the manosphere’s high priest of misogyny and homosociality, Andrew Tate—have moved here and seem ready to naturalize.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
15 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Ugandan authorities previously said their agreement with the U.S. relates to receiving deportees of African origin who do not have a criminal record.—
Rodney Muhumuza,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Apr. 2026
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Costa Rica received two planeloads of 200 deportees from the United States and sent them to detention centers.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
24 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Four migrants were found dead in the water that night, while a fifth body believed to the boat’s co-captain washed ashore about a week later.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Apr. 2026
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In recent years a wave of anti-immigration sentiment has helped to fuel the rise of the AfD across the country, particularly since a spate of attacks carried out by migrants in 2024 and 2025, including one at a Christmas market in Magdeburg.—
Sebastian Shukla,
CNN Money,
15 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Gonzalez-Perez said some immigrants are still hesitant to fill out government forms, out of fear that ICE might access their information and target them.—
Kff Health News,
Oc Register,
14 Apr. 2026
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Lower courts blocked the effort to send home Haitian immigrants, part of an already shrinking workforce in nursing homes.—
Christopher Rowland,
Washington Post,
14 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Those include sites like Bonneville Point – where emigrants got their first glimpse of the Boise River Valley and trail ruts can be seen – and Three Island Crossing State Park, named for the most crucial and challenging river crossing in the state.—
Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2026
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At least one of Mellone’s cases had been rejected in lower courts before the new law, hinging partially on rulings that Italian emigrants who took on another citizenship before having children cannot pass on Italian citizenship.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Apr. 2026
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“Repatriate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repatriate. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.
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