REPATRIATES Synonyms: 62 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of repatriate

as in refugees

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verb

present tense third-person singular of repatriate

as in naturalizes

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Noun

The country has also taken in more than a million Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war.

— Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 5 Oct. 2026
Laotian refugees in the country – verified and registered by the United Nations – have gone missing or been found dead.

— Shibani Mahtani, NPR, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of refugees

Noun

With expatriates making up nearly 90% of the UAE’s population, remittances are a prize worth billions.

— Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 24 Sep. 2026
First published by Scribner in 1926, The Sun Also Rises follows American journalist Jake Barnes and a circle of expatriates traveling from Paris to Pamplona in the years following the First World War.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of expatriates

Noun

Coast Guard personnel were intercepting migrants crossing the Rio Grande while working with other federal agencies when the initial gunshots came from the Mexican side of the border.

— Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026
All the passengers were migrants who paid smugglers to take them from the Bahamas to South Florida, Homeland Security Investigations agents said.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of migrants

Noun

The hospital is 2½ hours from the nearest big city, Bismarck, North Dakota, where immigrants fly in and are picked up by hospital staff for the drive down to Hettinger.

— Evelio Contreras, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2026
So would Hilton at least be an advocate for undocumented immigrants?

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of immigrants

Noun

Baksheng leaves behind a family and then creates a new one with other Teochew emigrants at an inn run by a feminist daughter, Zia Lamgi (Li Sitong) who dodges a revolving door of suitors.

— Randy Myers, Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2026
The decision could have broad implications for descendants of Italian emigrants, particularly in North and South America, where large Italian diaspora communities have ancestral ties to Italy.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 July 2026

Definition of emigrants

Noun

While emergency crews were largely able to mitigate the impact of the tank crisis, evacuees were kept away from their homes for nearly a week as the situation developed.

— Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026
By then, hordes of evacuees from the North Tower were walking north on Sixth Avenue to escape the terror.

— Bob Kustra, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026

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