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homeland

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


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He then wrote to the professor to ask what else he could do for his homeland.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

She said Leo helped poor Venezuelan migrants such as herself, people who had fled the economic meltdown and authoritarian rulers in their homeland.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

The German midfielder has spent seven-and-a-half years at the Amex across two spells, either side of his spell back in his homeland, and has re-established himself as Brighton's creative heartbeat this season.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

Pope Leo XIV is about to embark on one of the most ambitious papal foreign trips in decades, touring Uruguay, Argentina and his adopted homeland Peru, despite recent lung cancer surgery.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

She felt like a giant lost from her homeland.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye

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 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

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

The fear was so great that they destroyed the Pequot’s remaining homes and food supplies and forced them to leave their homelands.

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


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