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homeland

[hohm-land, -luhnd] / ˈhoʊmˌlænd, -lənd /
NOUN
fatherland
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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

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

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

In response, Jewish groups described Zionism as "anti-racism, creating a refuge for Jews in their ancient homeland after millennia of persecution outside it".

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Marina spoke to the young women herself during the ceremony, telling them, “Let’s vow once more, together, to stand to our last breath in defense of our beloved homeland.’

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

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

The fate of these women and their children has proven a sticking point for the Western countries from where some originated, with many trapped or stripped of their citizenship by their former homelands.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

The new policy, set by the California Natural Resources Agency, aims to start healing the harm caused by the state’s actions to bar tribes from their homelands and criminalize their cultural and land management practices.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

The Jamestown colony was built on Chesapeake Bay, at the edge of the Powhatan Confederacy homelands.

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


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