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homeland

[hohm-land, -luhnd] / ˈhoʊmˌlænd, -lənd /
NOUN
fatherland
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The Scot now heads to his homeland for his second Games appearance, competing in the Commonwealth Mile in search of his first medal for Team Scotland.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

A junior Commonwealth Games champion, Stowers marked her 18th birthday earlier this year with four gold medals - breaking 12 records along the way - at the Universal Weightlifting Championship in her homeland of Samoa.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

In the US capital, the department of homeland security and emergency management said air quality was "unhealthy for at-risk groups" including children and the elderly, urging people to limit time outdoors.

From Barron's Jul. 18, 2026

My American homeland was a complicated place with a lot of different kinds of people in it.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

Thanks to their wet-climate crops inherited from their West African homeland, the Bantu were able to farm in wet areas of East Africa unsuitable for all those previous occupants.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

These lands were part of the indigenous homelands of the Jewish people.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 10, 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

It’s one of the reasons we’re unwilling to hand over detailed maps of our homelands and cultural sites to anyone, let alone a foreign government.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 26, 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

However, with no such protection, the Indigenous peoples stood their ground against ongoing incursions into their homelands.

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




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