How to Use foreign-born in a Sentence

foreign-born

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  • And the growth of the foreign-born in the American South has been the fastest in the past 10 years.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 July 2024
  • Nearly one-third of Latinos in the U.S. are foreign-born.
    — Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
  • Their work was convened at H-Space by Sandy Cheng, who’s foreign-born herself.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
  • More than one-quarter of physicians and surgeons are foreign-born.
    — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
  • South of Market saw growth in both the overall and foreign-born populations over the recent decade.
    — Adriana Rezal, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2023
  • The union’s members are nearly all Hispanic and foreign-born, according to the union.
    — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Nearly 1 in 4 New York State residents are foreign-born.
    — Murad Awawdeh, New York Daily News, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Partly as a result of the ongoing border crisis, the number of foreign-born ...
    — Daniel Foster, National Review, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Twenty-eight percent of the residents are foreign-born, double the statewide rate, according to MOC.
    — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Myers: The majority of our fans are located outside the U.S., and 25% of our players are foreign-born.
    — Josh Glicksman, Billboard, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Just over 19% of the once rapidly declining industrial city is now foreign-born, the center said.
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 29 June 2024
  • The data also show that nearly a third of residents are foreign-born, a share that is almost double the statewide average.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Roughly 14% of the country’s total population is foreign-born today, just shy of the record set more than a century ago.
    — Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 25 July 2024
  • And while 11 percent of Black Americans across the country identify as foreign-born, those figures jump to 40 percent in Greater Boston.
    — Tiana Woodard, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Qualifying children must be born in the United States or foreign-born with a green card or pass the substantial presence test for tax purposes.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Six percent of its population is foreign-born, according to the U.S. Census.
    — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 20 Aug. 2023
  • There was no movement on a solution to the border crisis, which is talked about constantly in Montana, though only two per cent of the population is foreign-born.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Nearly a third of residents are foreign-born, with immigrants living all across the county and occupying all rungs of the social ladder.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2025
  • One in 5 people in California is foreign-born, and there is a persistent lack of polling data about this population.
    — Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Almost sixty-seven per cent of households speak a language other than English, and twenty-eight per cent of residents are foreign-born.
    — Geraldo Cadava, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023
  • In California, where one in every four people is foreign-born, immigrants face far greater rates of poverty and lack full access to social programs.
    — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Despite the stereotype of who farms for a living, Oliver pointed out that the majority of crop workers are foreign-born and many are undocumented.
    — Aleysha Haniff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2023
  • While the district, which is more than two-thirds Asian and almost 67% foreign-born, has long been a popular destination for Asian immigrants, the rise of certain ethnic groups have led to shifting demographics.
    — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 26 June 2024
  • But 37 percent of that population is foreign-born, the highest rate of any metropolitan area in the country, according to a recent study by the Boston Foundation.
    — Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
  • More than 37 percent of meat and poultry workers are foreign-born, according to estimates by the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
    — Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Few people in Flushing, the majority of whom are foreign-born, grew up together, and the solidarity of the neighborhood’s residents is fragile.
    — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024
  • One in five will be casting their first ballot in a presidential election, a sign that highlights how the Latino population in the country flipped from being primarily foreign-born to majority U.S.-born over the last two decades.
    — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
  • California’s population is more than a quarter foreign-born, the highest figure in the nation, according to Census data.
    — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Over 90% of farm workers in California are foreign-born and mostly undocumented.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Even now, 16% of women in the working population are foreign-born, and this group of women uniquely contributes to the wealth of our country by adding cultural capital, social capital and economic capital.
    — Kelly Huang, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024

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