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as in refugee
a person forced to emigrate for political reasons while in exile, the deposed king was accompanied by a small band of loyal expatriates

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verb

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adjective

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Noun
Paris Was a Woman evokes the experience of time travel, transporting viewers to a cherished era of American women expatriates in Paris during the early decades of the 20th century. Emily Maskell, Vulture, 18 June 2024 Covered expatriates face unique challenges, including a potential exit tax. Virginia La Torre Jeker, J.d., Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
Verb
The biography is centered on the married couple Gerald and Sara Murphy, wealthy Americans who expatriated in the nineteen-twenties and devoted themselves to cultivating a bohemian life style in France. The New Yorker, 9 July 2023 Leishmaniasis is rare in northern Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and had not been described as an endemic infection in the locals, expatriate guest workers or any of the Allied troops stationed in the region during World War II. Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2011
Adjective
These jobs tended to be filled by expatriate guest workers: in 2011, Saudis made up less than 15 percent of the private-sector workforce. Jennifer Peck, Foreign Affairs, 19 June 2024 Milan Vaishnav, a political scientist at Carnegie who studies India’s diaspora, said that expatriate Indians were a marginal force in Indian politics and that their campaign donations, while difficult to quantify, were small compared with the billions of dollars raised at home. John Yoon, New York Times, 30 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for expatriate 
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Noun
  • Iran would never choose a Rasoulof movie as its official Oscar submission, but the film qualified as German thanks to its Berlin co-producers and Rasoulof’s status as a refugee there.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Amer has a talent for bringing lightness to heavy topics such as asylum hearings and refugee status.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • In Act 4, Prospero, the former Duke of Milan who has been exiled to a desert island with daughter Miranda, and his magic book, interrupts his revenge scheme to conjure a supernatural theatrical pageant in honor of the engagement of Miranda and Ferdinand, the son of the king of Naples.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2025
  • As a result, its people have been imprisoned, exiled, and murdered.
    Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Inhumans does not exactly seem like MCU canon as it has more or less been banished from existence, despite attachment to Agents of SHIELD, outside of a brief cameo in Multiverse of Madness for Anson Mount’s Black Bolt (who was promptly murdered).
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
  • To banish household odors, create natural room scents, carpet powders, reed diffusers, and plug-in refills.
    Linley Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • What Happens Next Newsweek reached out to the Mexican foreign ministry for additional comment via email on Friday afternoon.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Two huge components of banking assets, foreign loans and mortgages, annihilated by early 1930s taxation.
    Brian Domitrovic, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025

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