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
In Canton, painters like Lam Qua headed ateliers devoted to Export art, adapting styles from expatriate artists such as George Chinnery to gain foreign clientele.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 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
Between the windows some ancient wooden santos, and a couple of newer ones that had been carved and painted by the expatriate Snuffy Ledoux, were hanging.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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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
But as thousands of stranded travelers and trapped expatriates were shocked to learn in the past week, the problem now is getting out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
Since 2008, the U.S. has required expatriates with assets above $2 million pay a steep “exit tax” on the appreciation of all their property.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026
As with so many expatriates who end up in Africa, it is not clear what brought him there.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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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
Department of Justice says was an early promoter of bitcoin who expatriated himself from the United States in 2014.
From Reuters ● Jan. 23, 2023
And the people of India are neither Hindu nor Mussulman—Jew, Ethiop, Gueber, or expatriated British.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
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
Expatriā′tion, act of expatriating: exile, voluntary or compulsory.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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