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man without a country

noun as in displaced person

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I always kind of felt like a man without a country because of everything we just talked about.

As a result, the Bakersfield Republican has ended up the proverbial man without a country, or in his case, a sustaining constituency.

Embiid isn’t a man without a country, but rather a man who just hasn’t chosen a country yet.

While Griner was in the Russian prison, her plight resembled that of a fictional character Philip Nolan, the protagonist of an 1863 short story by Edward Everett Hale, “The Man Without a Country.”

For the next 55 years, Nolan is a man without a country, something akin to Griner’s situation before the prisoner swap saved her from a nine-year sentence in a tiny, miserable Russian cell.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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