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repatriates 1 of 2

noun

plural of repatriate
as in refugees

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repatriates

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verb

present tense third-person singular of repatriate
as in naturalizes

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for repatriates
  1. refugees
  2. receives
  3. expatriates
  4. admits
  5. migrants
  6. immigrants
  7. emigrants
  8. evacuees
Noun
  • No God But Us is very much a book about Afghan refugees who are trying to forge a future amidst great displacement.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The charity offers horsemanship and outdoor activities for military veterans suffering from life-changing injuries and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), young people in the local community and refugees.
    — Danielle Rossingh, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of refugees
Verb
  • The platform decides which content receives additional exposure, and that exposure can influence who discovers a creator and whether the creator’s audience grows.
    — Sergi Cerrato, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • During the winter, Julian, a 33-year-old sculptor who lives and works in a converted factory in Brooklyn, New York, receives electricity bills that are as much as $800 a month.
    — Tami Luhby, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of receives
Noun
  • 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
  • More than 30,000 expatriates had registered with Fly&Vote, an initiative helping Israelis arrange election travel, which has already secured seven dedicated flights to Israel.
    — Deborah Danan, Sun Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of expatriates
Verb
  • Data Diversity One limitation, admits Darrell, is that his data comes from a single instance of robotic hardware.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Armed with strings of profanity and his thick Mancunian brogue, Liam admits that being back in front of an audience does, in fact, mean a lot to him.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of admits
Noun
  • For that sequence, the production recruited migrants through associations in Alicante to work as background actors.
    — Emiliano de Pablos, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Although a majority of migrants have voluntarily returned to Morocco, hundreds of children like Ismael are still living on the streets.
    — Colette Davidson, Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2026
Definition of migrants
Noun
  • Traditional Republicans who have supported, or at least gone along with, the party’s attacks on Muslims and immigrants and its rejection of democratic norms have spoken out against cracking the door open for anti-Semites.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2026
  • The son of Taiwanese immigrants, Hsu was a precocious talent and became a professional skateboarder in his mid-teens.
    — Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 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
  • The evacuees had been brought from the nearby community of Trishuli.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Aug. 2026
  • There are rumors about evacuees not being able to secure hotel rooms thanks to out-of-towners.
    — Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of evacuees
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“Repatriates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repatriates. Accessed 19 Sep. 2026.

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