stateless person
Example Sentences
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The stateless person and the heirless book belong to the same historical breach, though their losses remain incommensurable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
International law defines a stateless person as someone “not considered a national by any state under the operation of its law.”
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2025
In 1941, Johanna Margarete was declared a stateless person by the Nazis.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2023
He struggles as a stateless person to obtain visas, and “our letters,” he laments, degenerate into “bureaucratic reports.”
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 16, 2015
The court found that, considering his age, his infirmity and the fact the he is now a stateless person, there was little chance that he would try to flee while his appeals progress.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2011
