expatriation

Example Sentences

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He’d sought answers to his country’s racial problems through scholarship, sociology, pan-Africanism, Afrofuturism, sci-fi, Socialism, Communism and finally expatriation, to Ghana, a new nation with a new president, Du Bois ally Kwame Nkrumah.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

The Court was clear: Except in very rare cases, denaturalization and expatriation were taken off the table.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026

Brownell, Frankfurter delivered the opinion of the court supporting expatriation by beginning with “Petitioner, a national of the United States by birth …” Frankfurter went on to recount Perez’s history.

From Slate • Jan. 15, 2026

These expatriation figures don’t reflect migration but merely show the number of Americans living abroad who have effectively decided to give up any right to move back to the U.S.A.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 19, 2025

All the European countries denied the right of expatriation, while America from the beginning had insisted upon that right as one of its basic elements of liberty.

From Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft by Straus, Oscar S.