expatriate
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Petrović had become the latest victim of a concerning trend for foreign travellers and expatriate workers in West Africa's Sahel region.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026
Evidence is mounting that the draw of expatriate life extends beyond the cost of living.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
The embassy in Tehran usually counts around 30 expatriate employees, as well as a few dozen local staff members.
From Barron's ● Jan. 12, 2026
He tells of the Ghadar Movement—the word means rebellion in Urdu—that came to life amid these expatriate workers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
As a former trading colony, South Africa has always had a large expatriate community.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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He was convinced that the genuine France was the nation he would nurture in absentia; that there was an anti-Nazi power he could cultivate from the forces of colonial outposts, expatriates and the French Resistance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Many were Iranian expatriates who had been visiting Tehran when the war broke out, and who were only now leaving the country to return to Canada, Germany, the U.K. and Gulf countries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026
Witnesses say the drones hit Lake Kivu and a two-storey residential building frequently occupied by expatriates and aid workers in the rebel-held city early on Wednesday morning.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026
The building is in Himbi, a residential neighbourhood of Goma on the shores of Lake Kivu where many expatriates, staff members and headquarters of humanitarian organisations are based.
From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026
The author Julian Mayfield seemed to be the leader of Ghana’s little colony of Afro-American expatriates.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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The story follows a Russian writer named M, who has expatriated to someplace in Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
The following year, an appraiser Ver hired to value his companies asked him in an email to provide the number of Bitcoins he owned when he expatriated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025
Along with his second wife, Shirley Graham, Du Bois expatriated to Ghana in his final years, where he joined an ensemble of Pan-Africanists dedicated to President Kwame Nkrumah’s extraordinary experiment in postcolonial nation-building.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2023
Nearly 1,800 citizens and permanent residents, a record since data was first compiled in 1998, expatriated last year, according to government figures.
From Reuters ● Jul. 9, 2012
He was the son of Cynan, an expatriated prince of Gwynedd, by Raguel, daughter of Anlaf or Olafr, Dano-Irish king of Dublin and the fifth part of Ireland.
From The Welsh and Their Literature from The London Quarterly Review, January 1861, American Edition by George Henry Borrow
Not too long ago, I was speaking with a friend who recently left journalism for much more lucrative pastures, and who is seriously thinking about expatriating from the United States.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 24, 2023
As if we needed another reason to dream longingly of expatriating.
From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2018
He did this by expatriating money using mirror trades.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 22, 2016
Nobuoka also said she thinks about expatriating but still hopes the country will change.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 18, 2016
The two elder brothers, in a natural indignation against the popular ingratitude, took the expatriating destination.
From Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter
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