compatriots

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Compatriots Mariama Jamanka and Alexandra Burghardt came second, finishing 0.77secs behind the gold medallists, with American pair Elana Meyers Taylor and Sylvia Hoffman taking bronze.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2022

Compatriots tend to see her as a Muslim first, she said, and the government’s response to the violence left her wondering: are Muslims really equal in the eyes of the Republic?

From Reuters • Nov. 4, 2020

Russia’s relationship to its expats is the subject of The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia’s Exiles, Emigres, and Agents Abroad, a new book from Russian investigative journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan.

From Slate • Nov. 1, 2019

His resistance efforts were chronicled in the recently published volume “The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia’s Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad” by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan.

From Washington Post • Oct. 30, 2019

Compatriots, in Genoa, at that period, were very rare; but nothing could exceed the businesslike completeness of Georgina's precautions.

From Georgina's Reasons by James, Henry