How to Use foreign-born in a Sentence
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And the growth of the foreign-born in the American South has been the fastest in the past 10 years.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 July 2024
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Nearly one-third of Latinos in the U.S. are foreign-born.
—Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
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Their work was convened at H-Space by Sandy Cheng, who’s foreign-born herself.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
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More than one-quarter of physicians and surgeons are foreign-born.
—Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
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South of Market saw growth in both the overall and foreign-born populations over the recent decade.
—Adriana Rezal, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2023
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The union’s members are nearly all Hispanic and foreign-born, according to the union.
—Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 2 Mar. 2024
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Nearly 1 in 4 New York State residents are foreign-born.
—Murad Awawdeh, New York Daily News, 16 Dec. 2024
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Partly as a result of the ongoing border crisis, the number of foreign-born ...
—Daniel Foster, National Review, 13 Apr. 2023
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Twenty-eight percent of the residents are foreign-born, double the statewide rate, according to MOC.
—Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2024
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Myers: The majority of our fans are located outside the U.S., and 25% of our players are foreign-born.
—Josh Glicksman, Billboard, 8 Feb. 2024
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Just over 19% of the once rapidly declining industrial city is now foreign-born, the center said.
—Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 29 June 2024
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The data also show that nearly a third of residents are foreign-born, a share that is almost double the statewide average.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023
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Roughly 14% of the country’s total population is foreign-born today, just shy of the record set more than a century ago.
—Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 25 July 2024
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And while 11 percent of Black Americans across the country identify as foreign-born, those figures jump to 40 percent in Greater Boston.
—Tiana Woodard, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2023
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Qualifying children must be born in the United States or foreign-born with a green card or pass the substantial presence test for tax purposes.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2024
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Six percent of its population is foreign-born, according to the U.S. Census.
—Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 20 Aug. 2023
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There was no movement on a solution to the border crisis, which is talked about constantly in Montana, though only two per cent of the population is foreign-born.
—E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2024
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Nearly a third of residents are foreign-born, with immigrants living all across the county and occupying all rungs of the social ladder.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2025
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One in 5 people in California is foreign-born, and there is a persistent lack of polling data about this population.
—Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
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Almost sixty-seven per cent of households speak a language other than English, and twenty-eight per cent of residents are foreign-born.
—Geraldo Cadava, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023
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In California, where one in every four people is foreign-born, immigrants face far greater rates of poverty and lack full access to social programs.
—Calmatters, The Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2024
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Despite the stereotype of who farms for a living, Oliver pointed out that the majority of crop workers are foreign-born and many are undocumented.
—Aleysha Haniff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2023
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While the district, which is more than two-thirds Asian and almost 67% foreign-born, has long been a popular destination for Asian immigrants, the rise of certain ethnic groups have led to shifting demographics.
—Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 26 June 2024
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But 37 percent of that population is foreign-born, the highest rate of any metropolitan area in the country, according to a recent study by the Boston Foundation.
—Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
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Over half of Miami-Dade County’s population is foreign-born.
—Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2025
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More than 37 percent of meat and poultry workers are foreign-born, according to estimates by the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
—Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2024
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Few people in Flushing, the majority of whom are foreign-born, grew up together, and the solidarity of the neighborhood’s residents is fragile.
—Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024
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About 14% of the population of Illinois is foreign-born, according to the American Immigration Council.
—Samantha Moilanen, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
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One in five will be casting their first ballot in a presidential election, a sign that highlights how the Latino population in the country flipped from being primarily foreign-born to majority U.S.-born over the last two decades.
—Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
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California’s population is more than a quarter foreign-born, the highest figure in the nation, according to Census data.
—Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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