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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
The ranges stretch across the Tohono O'odham people's ancestral homelands.
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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
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 22 Nov. 2024.
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