citizen
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"It doesn't matter whether you are an ordinary citizen or first minister of the country, you have to be subject equally under the law."
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
An investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project in 2024 alleged Zhao operated as a key pointman for Beijing's interests in Fiji and was a naturalised citizen of the Pacific nation.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
My father, an unschooled sawmill worker, was a naturalized citizen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
If you’ve become a U.S. citizen less than 15 days before the election, you may register to vote by visiting your county elections office any time before the polls close on election day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
“Is he a naturalized American citizen or native born?”
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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But most insistently, the interstitial visuals are cinematographer Szor’s night shots of apartment facades in modern Tel Aviv: citizens at rest with their loved ones, working out or eating in front of their televisions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
"Appropriate measures must be taken by the relevant ministries and agencies to protect schoolchildren and students, including senior citizens and patients with respiratory illnesses," King Sultan Ibrahim said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Some of Kyiv's most vulnerable citizens – the elderly and women with young children – are being offered places in converted sanatoriums and rehabilitation centres in the city's forested outskirts.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Earlier this year, a court in Estonia convicted Yermolayev's son, Artur, of defrauding its citizens out of millions of euros through such "offisy", as the scam networks are known in Ukraine.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
However, the overwhelming majority of White Southern citizens, as well as leaders of all stripes—from political, to religious, to civic— continued to resist the Supreme Court’s Brown decision.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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