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expatriate

[eks-pay-tree-ayt, -pa-tree-, eks-pay-tree-it, -ayt, -pa-tree-] / ɛksˈpeɪ triˌeɪt, -ˈpæ tri-, ɛksˈpeɪ tri ɪt, -ˌeɪt, -ˈpæ tri- /
NOUN
person who lives outside their country
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NOUN
person forced out of their country
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“The Sun Also Rises,” Hemingway’s ode to, and takedown of, the postwar Paris expatriate scene, was published 100 years ago this month.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

However Gilpin believes that the history of the Six Nations and its ability to connect with expatriate fans in the United States could be a useful tool to crack America further.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Even Leo Stein, the American expatriate proponent of avant-garde art, called it “brilliant and powerful, but the nastiest smear of paint I had ever seen.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

Two expatriate workers were moderately hurt and four vehicles were damaged in the strike on Bukha, the Oman News Agency said.

From Barron's ● May 4, 2026

In Brazilian terms, it was like abandoning a glamorous expatriate life in Paris to come back to Chicago.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

With many offices moving to remote work, expatriates in Riyadh who frequently travelled to their home countries on weekends are still weighing their options.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

The long shadow of their war haunts all the expatriates of “The Sun Also Rises.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The building is in Himbi, a residential neighbourhood of Goma on the shores of Lake Kivu where many expatriates, staff members and headquarters of humanitarian organisations are based.

From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026

Witnesses say the drones hit Lake Kivu and a two-storey residential building frequently occupied by expatriates and aid workers in the rebel-held city early on Wednesday morning.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026

The author Julian Mayfield seemed to be the leader of Ghana’s little colony of Afro-American expatriates.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

The story follows a Russian writer named M, who has expatriated to someplace in Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

Along with his second wife, Shirley Graham, Du Bois expatriated to Ghana in his final years, where he joined an ensemble of Pan-Africanists dedicated to President Kwame Nkrumah’s extraordinary experiment in postcolonial nation-building.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2023

But perhaps the greatest inspiration however came from the life of Smith herself who died in 2010 but, as noted in Rees’ 2008 documentary “Eventual Salvation,” expatriated in Monrovia, Liberia in 1954.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2017

Nearly 1,800 citizens and permanent residents, a record since data was first compiled in 1998, expatriated last year, according to government figures.

From Reuters ● Jul. 9, 2012

He remembered Whitie Jack’s description of the expatriated musician.

From Doors of the Night by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

Not too long ago, I was speaking with a friend who recently left journalism for much more lucrative pastures, and who is seriously thinking about expatriating from the United States.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 24, 2023

As if we needed another reason to dream longingly of expatriating.

From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2018

He did this by expatriating money using mirror trades.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 22, 2016

Nobuoka also said she thinks about expatriating but still hopes the country will change.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 18, 2016

One of my friends is expatriating himself; I had been to see him off on board the Royal Mail steamer, and was coming back here.

From Father Goriot by Ellen Marriage


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