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Recent Examples of refugee
Was that written from the outset as a statement of intent to ultimately frame the story as an ever relevant refugee parable?
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Callum McLennan, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025
Washington is reportedly planning to allow 7,000 white Afrikaners into the country, out of a total of just 7,500 refugees this year.
—Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Those include an Ikea training and skills program for refugees, which to date reached over 3,700 people, and Ikea’s retail arm providing direct job opportunities to refugees from Syria and more recently, Ukraine, Brodin said.
—Peter Vanham, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
The International Court of Justice also said in its advisory opinion that the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the main UN body serving Palestinian refugees, has not violated impartiality rules and that Israel must support the agency’s relief work.
—Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
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Callum McLennan, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025
Washington is reportedly planning to allow 7,000 white Afrikaners into the country, out of a total of just 7,500 refugees this year.
—Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Those include an Ikea training and skills program for refugees, which to date reached over 3,700 people, and Ikea’s retail arm providing direct job opportunities to refugees from Syria and more recently, Ukraine, Brodin said.
—Peter Vanham, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
The International Court of Justice also said in its advisory opinion that the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the main UN body serving Palestinian refugees, has not violated impartiality rules and that Israel must support the agency’s relief work.
—Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for refugee
Noun
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He was fraudulently declared the loser and forced into exile by Maduro.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
23 Oct. 2025
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An exile tells the story of her statelessness in vignettes and reflections, centering on the objects that tie her to a place.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Each state signed up to the ICC is obligated to arrest and surrender a fugitive found in their territory.—
Ellie Cook,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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Low remains an at-large fugitive.—
Daniel Kreps,
Rolling Stone,
16 Oct. 2025
Noun
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After all, the human and the alien in Lanthimos’s films have always been divided by the most porous of membranes.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
24 Oct. 2025
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The two buffoons shave her head, chain her in the basement of a messy remote home and then accuse her of being an alien.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
22 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Prior to checking in at the guesthouse, Mangione met a Japanese professional poker player at dinner in Tokyo in February and chatted with two American expatriates in Bangkok in March, The New York Times reported.—
Jenna Sundel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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The not-so-blank canvas for this automotive expression is an example of the original Pantera, the collaborative vision of Alejandro de Tomaso, an expatriate of Argentina residing in Italy at the time, and the Ford Motor Company.—
Viju Mathew,
Robb Report,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Refugee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/refugee. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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