- plural of compatriot.
compatriots
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"We still have time to avoid this. Return our four compatriots to us alive, without any harm, and everything will go back to how it was before the kidnapping," he wrote.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
"The overwhelming majority of Taiwanese compatriots do not want war; they wish to live their lives in peace and hope for peaceful cross-strait exchanges," Han said at the National Day event.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
Shelton, meanwhile, surged past Tsitsipas in less than two hours to join his compatriots in the last eight.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Robert Ladd as to the gang ties of Davis and his compatriots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
In search of compatriots, they used to trail their fingers, at the start of each new semester, through the columns of the university directory, circling surnames familiar to their part of the world.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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