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as in exiled
to force to leave a country
deported them back to their country of birth
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as in acquitted
to manage the actions of (oneself) in a particular way
deported herself with grace and propriety at the country club cotillion
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Recent Examples of deported
Yet once an administration decides all undocumented immigrants should be deported, the priority on criminals will fade.
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Stuart Anderson, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Vance backed away from all of that during the debate, saying little more than violent criminals would be deported, a position that few will argue against.
—Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2024
My aunt knew she might be deported and killed.
—The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
Or, Agarwal asks, what would have happened if Musk had been deported or forced to return to Canada or South Africa?
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2024
Yes, those same Crimean Tatars who were deported by Stalin in a 1944 genocide now must live through their second national catastrophe in less than a century, thanks to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
—Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Affairs, 21 Apr. 2020
Foreign experts can be swiftly deported or politely asked to leave, and local ones can be demoted with virtually no explanation.
—Calvert W. Jones, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2019
Stuart Anderson, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Vance backed away from all of that during the debate, saying little more than violent criminals would be deported, a position that few will argue against.
—Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2024
My aunt knew she might be deported and killed.
—The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
Or, Agarwal asks, what would have happened if Musk had been deported or forced to return to Canada or South Africa?
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2024
Yes, those same Crimean Tatars who were deported by Stalin in a 1944 genocide now must live through their second national catastrophe in less than a century, thanks to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
—Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Affairs, 21 Apr. 2020
Foreign experts can be swiftly deported or politely asked to leave, and local ones can be demoted with virtually no explanation.
—Calvert W. Jones, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deported
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The sentiment being more important than the form, Miss Manners thinks Persons A and B both acquitted themselves most graciously.Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
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Wallace, one of Hernandez’s two co-defendants in the Lloyd murder case, is convicted of accessory to murder after the fact and acquitted of murder.Eric Levenson, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024
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Apparently, she was banished from her Puritan colony for being too much of a buzzkill.Katie Campione, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2024
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Those found guilty of habitual funny cowboy dancing are either executed or banished to the Desolate Zone, where they are forced to get jobs and raise families.Jack Handey, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
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These long simulations, each running for thousands of model years, allowed the researchers to examine how El Niño and La Niña might have behaved in ancient Earth conditions.Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2024
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Then in the second episode, having behaved like a cad to Isabella for 20-ish minutes, Bobbie goes off on a rant.Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2024
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The last 8 teams will compete to determine the 2 teams to be relegated to the second division.Assile Toufaily, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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And though midnight movie screenings are still enjoyed by niche audiences, spook shows have been all but completely relegated to history.Scott Feinblatt, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2024
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The White House Offer would lead customers to buy other Microsoft products that ran on Azure, the company’s cloud platform, which carried additional charges based on how much storage space and computing power the customer used.Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 15 Nov. 2024
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The Knights, led by fellow Sharks prospect Sam Dickinson, carried a nine-game win streak into Friday and had an overall record of 13-4-0-0.Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
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“Deported.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deported. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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