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ABC News, 4 Mar. 2026 Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said last week his country will not repatriate its citizens with links to Islamic State members. —Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 25 Feb. 2026 Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Wednesday reiterated his position announced a day earlier that his government would not help repatriate the latest group. —Rod McGuirk, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026 His client’s wish — to repatriate the objects and honor Thailand’s cultural heritage — rang always in his ears. —Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 24 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for repatriate
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Amid the travel chaos and with commercial flights limited, governments across the globe have been mounting emergency operations to try to repatriate their citizens. —ABC News, 4 Mar. 2026 Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said last week his country will not repatriate its citizens with links to Islamic State members. —Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 25 Feb. 2026 Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Wednesday reiterated his position announced a day earlier that his government would not help repatriate the latest group. —Rod McGuirk, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026 His client’s wish — to repatriate the objects and honor Thailand’s cultural heritage — rang always in his ears. —Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 24 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for repatriate
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What were her feelings about being an expatriate in the years after the Civil War?— Tyehimba Jess, ARTnews.com, 17 Apr. 2026
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The city’s gravitational pull operates differently, and more powerfully, for the billions in the Global South than for the few Western expatriates who fled at the first missile alert.— Bobby Ghosh, Time, 8 Apr. 2026
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Snitker received further praise when he was shown on the jumbotron before the bottom of the fourth inning.— Gabriel Burns, AJC.com, 26 Apr. 2026
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Over the years, the museum has received its share of accolades.— Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
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Born in London to Hungarian refugees who fled their homeland during the 1956 revolution, Hilton grew up in a household without much money.— National Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
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Fort Worth school district’s Board of Managers will vote on whether to close International Newcomers Academy — a sixth-through-ninth-grade school that offers specialized academic instruction for refugees and immigrants — during a board meeting Tuesday, April 28.— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Apr. 2026
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Brown, of Cornell Law School, said these announcements could have prompted some otherwise hesitant people to naturalize before these rules went into effect — or in anticipation of further rules.— Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 13 Apr. 2026
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There are the one-off bulbs that probably won’t naturalize.— Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2026
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Human rights groups and attorneys representing deportees, as well as their family members, say their only hope at this point is for Bukele to restore due process in El Salvador.— Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, NPR, 17 Apr. 2026
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Ugandan authorities previously said their agreement with the U.S. relates to receiving deportees of African origin who do not have a criminal record.— Rodney Muhumuza, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026
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Their shores have received merchants, soldiers and migrants moving between East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Indian subcontinent.— Adam Pourahmadi, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026
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While none of those migrants are being held at Bata, the visit put the spotlight on Equatorial Guinea’s overall human rights record and its judiciary, which rights campaigners have criticized for its lack of independence, arbitrary detentions and other abuses.— Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
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In many cases, questions along these lines came from people who described themselves as the children of immigrants and were wondering about their own status.— Lawrence Glickman, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2026
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Second, the jurors who will decide the course of this lawsuit are a fascinating and diverse group, with blue-collar immigrants serving alongside white-colllar retirees.— Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 28 Apr. 2026
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Those include sites like Bonneville Point – where emigrants got their first glimpse of the Boise River Valley and trail ruts can be seen – and Three Island Crossing State Park, named for the most crucial and challenging river crossing in the state.— Nathan Diller, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
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At least one of Mellone’s cases had been rejected in lower courts before the new law, hinging partially on rulings that Italian emigrants who took on another citizenship before having children cannot pass on Italian citizenship.— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026
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“Repatriate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/repatriate. Accessed 29 Apr. 2026.
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