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Recent Examples of overseas
In its 2024 annual report, Wang described capturing overseas markets a key goal.
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Yue Wang, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
In other words, supposedly overseas aid is being spent at home.
—Christine Ro, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
Many Americans erroneously think their government spends at least 20 percent of the federal budget on overseas aid.
—Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
By 2027, the U.K. government will spend just 0.3% of its budget on overseas aid.
—Sarah Stroup, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2025
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Yue Wang, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
In other words, supposedly overseas aid is being spent at home.
—Christine Ro, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
Many Americans erroneously think their government spends at least 20 percent of the federal budget on overseas aid.
—Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
By 2027, the U.K. government will spend just 0.3% of its budget on overseas aid.
—Sarah Stroup, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overseas
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The regime’s brutality was evident in incidents such as the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre, where 69 unarmed protesters were killed by police, which, like in Gandhi’s Salt March, marked a turning point in international condemnation.—
Dan Pontefract,
Forbes,
22 Mar. 2025
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For Millan’s Hena Lee, the strategy is to integrate the primary and secondary markets in the same project, promoting the legacy of emblematic artists and boosting contemporary production in the national and international scenes.—
Lise Alves,
ARTnews.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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While 32% were foreign-born, according to the Migration Policy Institute, only 13% of the Latinas in the U.S. are undocumented.—
Noreen Sugrue,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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Fort Myers is roughly a quarter Latino and a fifth foreign-born, according to Census data.—
Syra Ortiz Blanes,
Orlando Sentinel,
19 Mar. 2025
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The Kakadu Plum Many exotic foods are rich in vitamin C.—
Lana Barhum,
Verywell Health,
20 Mar. 2025
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Practically speaking, the most important thing is not whether the exotic topological state can be proven to be present, but whether researchers can build a qubit that is both controllable and much more robust against noise than approaches that are more mature.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
19 Mar. 2025
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And while observatories in space and on the ground can give some clues about exoplanets, stars themselves are crucial to understanding these distant worlds.—
Elizabeth Landau,
Smithsonian Magazine,
19 Mar. 2025
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Going after a distant terrorist org on which U.S. trade barely depends will not satisfy the MAGA base or Congress.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
21 Mar. 2025
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Good King, who falls for the temptress, promptly follows her tip to fight a far-off battle, and never returns.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
19 Mar. 2025
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Graham, Kansas City Bier Company’s head brewer, posted the note on Facebook, with a clear message of his own for anyone unclear about who would be paying the import tax: The tariff would be paid by Kansas City Bier Company, not by Canada or some other far-off group.—
Nathan Pilling,
Kansas City Star,
18 Mar. 2025
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The Pandemic's Unexpected Lesson The widespread shift to remote learning during the 2020 pandemic, Viney explained, provided an unprecedented, albeit unintentional, experiment in alternative education.—
Dan Fitzpatrick,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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Some agreed to voluntarily return to their countries from Panama, but others refused out of fear of persecution and were sent to a remote camp in the Darien jungle for weeks.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
22 Mar. 2025
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Much of Washington Heights is old farmland The area's earliest nonindigenous civilization in the Washington Heights area began in 1835.—
Drake Bentley,
Journal Sentinel,
19 Feb. 2024
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The lizard may also have or spread nonindigenous parasites or pathogens to native wildlife.—
Amaris Encinas,
USA TODAY,
3 Jan. 2024
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This multinational project has fostered not just scientific discovery but also a spirit of camaraderie between nations.—
Shelli Brunswick,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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What makes the situation in the Saya de Malha Bank even more urgent is that it’s being systematically decimated by a multinational fleet of fishing ships that virtually no one tracks or polices.—
Ian Urbina,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Overseas.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overseas. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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