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homeland

[hohm-land, -luhnd] / ˈhoʊmˌlænd, -lənd /
NOUN
fatherland
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Notice we haven’t even counted Medicaid, or any of the other things the federal government does, from highways and farm support to homeland security, justice and so on.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

His client fled to his ancestral homeland ahead of a mid-September sentencing date, a move that has become the talk of the state’s political class.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Hilton is an immigrant from the United Kingdom and is the son of Hungarian immigrants who fled their homeland during a revolution in 1956.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

As these craftspeople traveled south from northern Florida, they may have carried pieces of older pottery made from clay found in their homeland.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

“And you’re from Texas, you say. The winds have blown you a long way from your homeland, Mr. Scoresby.”

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

The highway traverses the ancestral homelands of more than 25 tribal nations.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

While this system works like crazy for rappers in France or Brazil, who are now all over the charts in their homelands, it potentially hampers artists in the U.K.,

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

Many say they plan to go to Russia rather than return to their homelands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

A presidential document posted to the official daily journal of the US government stated that those accepted would "primarily" be Afrikaner South Africans and "other victims of illegal or unjust discrimination in their respective homelands".

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025

On each continent, animal and plant domestication was concentrated in a few especially favorable homelands accounting for only a small fraction of the continent’s total area.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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