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expatriate

[eks-pey-tree-eyt, -pa-tree-, eks-pey-tree-it, -eyt, -pa-tree-] / ɛksˈpeɪ triˌeɪt, -ˈpæ tri-, ɛksˈpeɪ tri ɪt, -ˌeɪt, -ˈpæ tri- /
NOUN
person who lives outside their country
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NOUN
person forced out of their country
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However Gilpin believes that the history of the Six Nations and its ability to connect with expatriate fans in the United States could be a useful tool to crack America further.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Even Leo Stein, the American expatriate proponent of avant-garde art, called it “brilliant and powerful, but the nastiest smear of paint I had ever seen.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

Two expatriate workers were moderately hurt and four vehicles were damaged in the strike on Bukha, the Oman News Agency said.

From Barron's ● May 4, 2026

Co-owner Ranjit Mathrani says generals, civil servants and businesspeople who had links with India first came here, along with expatriate Indians.

From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2026

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

No air sirens rang out as beachgoers in Dubai, an emirate populated almost entirely by expatriates, kept the party going as the first missiles were intercepted Saturday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

Once expatriates were included, their voice would aid democracy, he said.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 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

Several hours later, she was one of hundreds of Venezuelan expatriates and Venezuelan Americans who gathered in the Miami suburb of Doral - the hub of South Florida's Venezuelan community - to celebrate.

From BBC ● Jan. 4, 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

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

Cassatt, who was born into enormous wealth in Pittsburgh and spent most of her life expatriated to France, fell out of fashion after her death, in 1926, at age 82.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2024

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

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

"Have you an idea of expatriating yourself—of 'quitting your country for your country's good'?"

From St. Elmo by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans




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