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Verb
As World War II allies turned into Cold War adversaries, Western authorities obstructed the Kremlin’s efforts to repatriate Soviet citizens. Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025 Both Abdi, the SDF commander, and Hanan, Al Hol’s director, said the best solution would be to repatriate people to their homelands. Women and children at the Al Hol camp in northeastern Syria. Richard Engel, NBC News, 12 Feb. 2025 According to the White House, Grenell's hourslong visit to Caracas focused on Trump's efforts to repatriate Venezuelan nationals at a time when their home country was refusing to accept them. Justin Gest, Newsweek, 10 Feb. 2025 Data sovereignty concerns, unforeseen costs and the need for specialized expertise have prompted a reassessment of cloud strategies, leading some organizations to repatriate workloads deemed unsuitable for public cloud environments back to on-premises infrastructure. Serge Lucio, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for repatriate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repatriate
Noun
  • For expatriates and multinational business owners, staying informed and proactive in tax planning will be crucial.
    Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Rodrigo Montes de Oca, a research scholar at the Center for the U.S. and Mexico, said this two-step process has been the case since the government first allowed expatriates to vote in 2006. Voters have increasingly met these requirements.
    Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American-Statesman, 5 June 2024
Verb
  • Colón received over 525,000 votes, and the statehood referendum received over 600,000 votes.
    Van Hipp, Sun Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Fans who attended a game Feb. 22 against the Utah Hockey Club received an Armenian scarf.
    Ryan Morik, Fox News, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Other immigration plans, including the detention of deportees at Guantanamo Bay and stopping the country's refugee resettlement program, have also been challenged in court.
    Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Catch up quick: In January, a Trump administration executive order froze federal funding for refugee resettlement.
    Andrew King, Axios, 11 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The bulbs naturalized through the years, and the field was full of bright yellow single and double-bloom flowers.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Poppies have a tendency to self-sow or naturalize in the garden.
    Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • More than a month after announcing the transfer of migrants to Guantanamo and the creation of spaces to house some 30,000 deportees, the Trump administration has suspended construction of tents at the base.
    Osmary Hernández and Manuel Cobela, CNN, 12 Mar. 2025
  • But during a visit from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the country agreed to serve as a bridge for deportees, with the U.S. funding the operation.
    Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Medium-distance migrants: These are birds that migrate a few hundred miles.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Founded in the 1600s, Boston boasts architecture influenced by early English and European migrants.
    Food Drink Life, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The four Democratic leaders were invited to testify on sanctuary city policies for immigrants.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
  • It was estimated that around 54,000 immigrants entered the state between 2022 and 2023.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The emigrants killed were traveling by wagon to California at the time.
    Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
  • In the massacre, settlers of the LDS Church involved in a territorial militia killed 120 American western emigrants.
    Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2025

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“Repatriate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repatriate. Accessed 16 Mar. 2025.

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