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Recent Examples of resettlement
Others have shuttered their services, changing the landscape of the refugee resettlement process.
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NPR, 31 Oct. 2025
These include executive orders and regulatory changes to enforce immigration laws more strictly, pause or restrict refugee resettlement, reinstate rapid-expulsion policies like Title 42, expedite deportations, and increase border barrier construction.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Funds must be raised for reconstruction and resettlement.
—Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 16 Oct. 2025
Mark Hetfield, president of the refugee resettlement group HIAS, defended the existing global agreements as ensuring people would never be subject to persecution without an escape route.
—Ted Hesson, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
According to our Homestead Experience Coordinator, these bespoke technologies were programmed just for us, maximizing the benefits of our changing climate and our reshaped biomes, all while taking the messy human guesswork out of relocation and resettlement.
—Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Refugee resettlement programs have had to lay off staff and suspend operations after federal funding was frozen.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
Judy Orr retiring as executive director of Nashville's Catholic Charities after six-plus years, overseeing COVID-19 and tornado relief and refugee resettlement programs.
—Liam Adams, Nashville Tennessean, 4 Sep. 2025
Tennessee’s history of supporting of refugees Tennessee for decades has accepted refugees since the country’s resettlement program began in 1980 with the passage of the Refugee Act.
—Kelly Puente, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
NPR, 31 Oct. 2025
These include executive orders and regulatory changes to enforce immigration laws more strictly, pause or restrict refugee resettlement, reinstate rapid-expulsion policies like Title 42, expedite deportations, and increase border barrier construction.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Funds must be raised for reconstruction and resettlement.
—Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 16 Oct. 2025
Mark Hetfield, president of the refugee resettlement group HIAS, defended the existing global agreements as ensuring people would never be subject to persecution without an escape route.
—Ted Hesson, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
According to our Homestead Experience Coordinator, these bespoke technologies were programmed just for us, maximizing the benefits of our changing climate and our reshaped biomes, all while taking the messy human guesswork out of relocation and resettlement.
—Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Refugee resettlement programs have had to lay off staff and suspend operations after federal funding was frozen.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
Judy Orr retiring as executive director of Nashville's Catholic Charities after six-plus years, overseeing COVID-19 and tornado relief and refugee resettlement programs.
—Liam Adams, Nashville Tennessean, 4 Sep. 2025
Tennessee’s history of supporting of refugees Tennessee for decades has accepted refugees since the country’s resettlement program began in 1980 with the passage of the Refugee Act.
—Kelly Puente, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for resettlement
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Bill Belichick was head coach of those 1995 Browns, a team that entered that season with high expectations (Sports Illustrated picked them to go to the Super Bowl) but finished a disappointing 5-11 as relocation news became a massive distraction for the team.—
Jim Reineking,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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If approved, security officials will review whether the alternative site meets federal standards before any relocation occurs.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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On whale cams, clingy fish steal the show The marine scientist who recorded the accidental close-ups of the remoras’ high-speed whale surfing had placed suction-cup cameras on humpbacks during their annual migration from Antarctica to the waters off Australia’s Queensland state.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
8 Nov. 2025
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Directed by Alicia Núñez Puerto, the short interweaves migration, past history and menstruation, presenting lineage as something carried across oceans and generations.—
Callum McLennan,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2025
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The country continues to grapple with hyperinflation, shortages, and mass emigration, with over seven million Venezuelans fleeing abroad.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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An analysis conducted by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, or FRA, also concluded last year that more than half of respondents had either emigrated or considered emigration in the five years prior to the survey.—
Emily Hallas,
The Washington Examiner,
7 Oct. 2025
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There are two questions Gazans have usually asked each other since the start of this campaign of unrelenting and systematic destruction, starvation, displacement and mass killing.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Washington examines varying experiences of displacement, writing with tenderness about the tolls of emigration and exile, both cultural and familial.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
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Some of 2025’s biggest hits are missing from the Grammys, either through the timing of the calendar or by self-deportation.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2025
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They are also generally protected from deportation until a decision is made on their case.—
Verónica Egui Brito,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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Though there were only two votes against the October cut, public statements from multiple officials have indicated a wide dispersion of opinion among officials.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
10 Nov. 2025
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For now, the map provides visual data for understanding how the civilization moved and evolved, helping to identify routes for the dispersion of goods, the circulation of diseases or the spread of ideas, de Soto said.—
Taylor Nicioli,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Resettlement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resettlement. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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