citizens

plural of citizen
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as in nationals
a person who owes allegiance to a government and is protected by it conscientious citizens who regard voting as a duty as well as a right

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Recent Examples of citizens In a signal of support for the citizens who have been displaced by the violence, Tuluka met with war victims in late November. Erin Spencer Sairam, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024 That citizens universally prioritize data privacy above all else. Gregory Francis, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024 When a pro-democracy movement emerged in 2011, a few months after the Arab Spring began, Assad doubled down on repression, even against his own citizens. John Feffer, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024 Advertisement The council voted 12-0 to approve the guidelines, which were developed by a citizens oversight committee with help from the housing department. Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024 The heroine learns of rifts that have opened throughout the kingdom of Hyrule, with citizens being taken through these portals — and Link, who is missing, may be one of them. Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024 Millions of screens lit up with speculation as the political class and regular citizens alike tried to figure out what the President could possibly be up to. Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024 Among them were citizens who had traveled from hours away and college students studying for exams in the throng while keeping one eye on the news. Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024 Thousands of residents packed into cars trying to leave the city before the rebel takeover jammed roadways, citizens told Reuters. Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2024
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  • Under the Biden administration, three large chartered deportation flights to China took place within six months, following the return of more than 100 migrants in June and the removal of 131 Chinese nationals in October.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Those flights have had a hundred or so people on board each time, despite over 38,000 encounters with Chinese nationals along the southwest border in Fiscal Year 2024.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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  • The feature directed by a collective of Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers offers a rare ground-level view of what life is like for Palestinian villagers in a rural West Bank area who have faced an expulsion order from the Israel Defense Forces that goes back decades.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Local villagers responded by stringing nets across the water to prevent further drownings.
    Robert Pearl, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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  • Genuine peril causes the game’s inhabitants to scatter.
    Lewis Gordon, The Verge, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Excavations conducted at the ancient site of Shakhi Kora in northern Iraq, as part of the Sirwan Regional Project, have revealed that the inhabitants of the settlement adopted centralized governing systems but eventually abandoned them.
    Gairika Mitra, Interesting Engineering, 7 Dec. 2024

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“Citizens.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/citizens. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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