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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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  1. refugees
  2. receives
  3. expatriates
  4. admits
  5. migrants
  6. immigrants
  7. emigrants
  8. evacuees
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
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Verb
  • Kimmel asked if the musician regularly receives lyrics via text.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Pi-o receives an unsigned postcard from the Czech Republic offering some friendly critiques.
    — Kayti Burt, Time, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of receives
Noun
  • The Gulf state has no federal personal income tax, and has become an increasingly popular luxe destination for wealthy expatriates.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2026
  • With expatriates making up nearly 90% of the UAE’s population, remittances are a prize worth billions.
    — Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of expatriates
Verb
  • In a separate interview with THR, Hoover admits her own read of what‘s real has shifted.
    — Beatrice Verhoeven, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026
  • With an Alford plea, a defendant maintains innocence but admits that the prosecution has enough evidence to convict.
    — Rachel Roberts, Idaho Statesman, 23 Sep. 2026
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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
  • About 20 years ago, Hazleton passed the controversial Illegal Immigration Relief Act, which withheld permits from businesses employing undocumented immigrants and fined landlords who rented to them.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026
  • The state also has policies to prevent federal authorities from accessing motor vehicle and driver's license records of immigrants without a court order or search warrant.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 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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