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homeland

[hohm-land, -luhnd] / ˈhoʊmˌlænd, -lənd /
NOUN
fatherland
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He hit an absolute rocket of a shot into the top corner from 40 yards in his homeland against Porto, a goal which took them into the Champions League semi-finals.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Their findings indicate that the site is at least 1.9 million years old, making it one of the earliest known locations where ancient humans lived outside their African homeland.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

Machado has been in exile since covertly leaving her South American homeland in late 2025 to receive her Nobel Peace Prize.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

As they scatter, regroup and break off again, the work never stops, even when sources don’t want to trust them, the ground under their feet keeps shifting and the cloud over their homeland gets darker.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

In 1839 he returned to his homeland for the first time since his childhood and was greeted rapturously by crowds chanting 'Hail!

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

That is the through-line: a city, a state and a country that objectify Native homelands, treating them as expendable and raw material.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

Deported not to their homelands but to unfamiliar cities deep inside Mexico, thousands of migrants are stranded in a dangerous, bureaucratic limbo with little support and no clear path forward.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 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

As the Ulster Scots arrived in the British colonies, they settled in Pennsylvania and in other British-held areas on the homelands of several Indigenous nations.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz


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