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the land of one's birth, residence, or citizenship
tries to return every year to Italy, her homeland for the first two decades of her life
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Recent Examples of homelands
Advertisement Saving sacred places Early designations often pushed tribes from their ancestral homelands.
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Susan Montoya Bryan, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
The curriculums in these institutions attempted to force Native students to abandon their identities, participate in the dispossession of their communities’ homelands, and assimilate into American society as subservient laborers.
—TIME, 25 Nov. 2024
The star adds that there are a variety of striking, diverse designs to be found in her native homelands.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
Not surprisingly, many preferred to remain in their homelands.
—Daniel Mandell / Made By History, TIME, 14 Oct. 2024
The Arizona Republic traveled to the Klamath last year for a series of stories about the damage inflicted by the dams and the work to restore wildlife habitat and ancestral homelands.
—Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 12 Oct. 2024
Instead, Europe should exploit these individuals' strong emotional attachment to their homelands to increase their engagement with their original societies.
—Edoardo Campanella, Foreign Affairs, 5 Jan. 2016
The ranges stretch across the Tohono O'odham people's ancestral homelands.
—Austin Corona, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2024
That, in turn, would risk unleashing the all-out mutual destruction of the major powers’ homelands.
—Richard K. Betts, Foreign Affairs, 4 July 2022
Susan Montoya Bryan, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
The curriculums in these institutions attempted to force Native students to abandon their identities, participate in the dispossession of their communities’ homelands, and assimilate into American society as subservient laborers.
—TIME, 25 Nov. 2024
The star adds that there are a variety of striking, diverse designs to be found in her native homelands.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
Not surprisingly, many preferred to remain in their homelands.
—Daniel Mandell / Made By History, TIME, 14 Oct. 2024
The Arizona Republic traveled to the Klamath last year for a series of stories about the damage inflicted by the dams and the work to restore wildlife habitat and ancestral homelands.
—Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 12 Oct. 2024
Instead, Europe should exploit these individuals' strong emotional attachment to their homelands to increase their engagement with their original societies.
—Edoardo Campanella, Foreign Affairs, 5 Jan. 2016
The ranges stretch across the Tohono O'odham people's ancestral homelands.
—Austin Corona, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2024
That, in turn, would risk unleashing the all-out mutual destruction of the major powers’ homelands.
—Richard K. Betts, Foreign Affairs, 4 July 2022
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“Homelands.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homelands. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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