expatriate
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The closest it has come to playing an international match was when representative teams faced a Solomon Islands expatriate team in 1994 and a refugee side in 2014.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
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
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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Skill shortages, it says, should be filled by returning German expatriates, automation and artificial intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 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
Once expatriates were included, their voice would aid democracy, he said.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
The Expo attracted expatriates who "want a dynamic life, close to fashion and design", said Diletta Giorgolo Spinola, head of residential offerings in Italy for Sotheby's.
From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026
When I telephoned Mayfield, in what seemed no time at all I was sitting in his home surrounded by about forty black American expatriates; they had been waiting for my arrival.
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
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
But perhaps the greatest inspiration however came from the life of Smith herself who died in 2010 but, as noted in Rees’ 2008 documentary “Eventual Salvation,” expatriated in Monrovia, Liberia in 1954.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2017
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
The second great danger was the claim of a new tribe that had recently started up—the descendants of James Sibbold, who had also expatriated themselves.
From World's End A Story in Three Books by Richard Jefferies
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
With this difference, that the Tarasconese, instead of expatriating themselves on foreign summits, are content with those they have in hand, or rather underfoot, at the gates of their town.
From Tartarin On The Alps by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
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