ethnic cleansing

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Recent Examples of ethnic cleansing Binod Shah first came to the U.S. as a refugee, fleeing ethnic cleansing in his home country. Carolyn Komatsoulis, Idaho Statesman, 11 Apr. 2025 Conquest may involve ethnic cleansing, as illustrated in the recent U.S. proposal, supported by Israel, to empty the Gaza Strip and move its population to nearby countries. Tanisha M. Fazal, Foreign Affairs, 21 Mar. 2025 Human rights experts and organizations have called this operation an ethnic cleansing and even a genocide. Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025 The proposal has been welcomed by Netanyahu, but derided by Palestinian and Arab leaders alike, who characterize it as ethnic cleansing. Mick Krever, CNN, 18 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ethnic cleansing
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Noun
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    Sherri Gordon, Health, 2 June 2025
  • Medical coverage $25,000 in medical expense coverage $100,000 in evacuation/repatriation coverage Pre-existing conditions A pre-existing coverage waiver is available for medical conditions that existed at least 60 days before purchasing a policy.
    Jason Stauffer, CNBC, 1 June 2025
Noun
  • Mario Tama / Getty Images Company: Lyft Inc (LYFT) Lyft (LYFT) is a multimodal transportation network in the United States and Canada.
    Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 31 May 2025
  • Part of the focus is to keep students in their own district, rather than sending them by bus as much as an hour away for specialized programs for which tuition and transportation costs can reach as high as $200,000 per student, officials said.
    Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2025
Noun
  • That’s highly synchronous, resulting in many, many animals making that migration simultaneously.
    Noël Fletcher, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
  • Conservative border hawks have long blamed Flores for the rise in family migration, pointing out that smugglers often exploit the agreement’s 20-day detention limit for children to secure quick release for entire families.
    Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • And as the emigration rate goes up, the CEBR’s report says the Treasury would incur higher losses.
    Robert Olsen, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
  • Where another filmmaker might have framed Cheung’s emigration as a selfless act, Tsang — whose probing direction creates a rich and detailed reality from the day-to-day business of life at the parlor — recognizes that righteousness is a luxury that desperation can’t afford.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 22 Apr. 2025

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