homeland
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Machado, 59, has been in exile since covertly leaving her South American homeland late last year to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
Jocelyn Kelleher, the New South Wales stand-off, qualified for England through parentage - but she showed no mercy for her mum's homeland as she and he athletic, skilful backs colleagues yielded try after try.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
These siblings have left their homeland for warmer and less haunted climes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 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
We left our homeland, a place we had known all our lives.
From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya
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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
President David Adeang also floated the possibility of sending the immigrants -- some of whom advocacy groups say are refugees -- back to their homelands.
From Barron's ● Nov. 25, 2025
It still belonged to Indigenous nations, many of which had allied with the British in order to protect their homelands from land-hungry Americans.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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Human Geography - Middle School
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