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citizen

[sit-uh-zuhn, -suhn] / ˈsɪt ə zən, -sən /


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“They’re looking for a U.S. citizen with a pulse,” Johnson said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

The 57-year-old, once a senior advisor to Britain's prime minister David Cameron, moved stateside in search of the "California dream" before becoming a US citizen in 2021.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

“Los Angeles could not exist the way that it does without stolen water,” AnMarie Mendoza, a Tongva citizen and University of California, Los Angeles doctoral researcher, told Salon.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

The charity Earthwatch Europe says trained citizen scientists have found potentially harmful levels of metal or metalloid at 52 freshwater sites across Corby.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Every last Soviet citizen liberated from the German prison camps—even those at Auschwitz—was questioned as a possible spy.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

US First Lady Melania Trump said in a surprise announcement Friday she had secured a localized ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine in the ravaged city of Oleshky, where citizens are trapped and short of food.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

Like a church, a town hall, or hôtel de ville in French, is a “common home where citizens marry, vote and honor their elders,” Mr. Lévy says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

It is against federal law for immigrants who are not naturalized citizens to vote or register to do so.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

The document states that a majority of the seven-member board must be U.S. citizens at all times, and the U.S. government can appoint one “non-voting observer” to join the group.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

The city’s 80 percent unemployment rate, a result of the Great Depression, had led factory managers to reduce wages and inspired thousands of citizens to support the strikers.

From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell


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