1
as in to exile
to force to leave a country
deported them back to their country of birth
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2
as in to acquit
to manage the actions of (oneself) in a particular way
deported herself with grace and propriety at the country club cotillion
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Recent Examples of deport
If not, you will be arrested and deported without a chance to return.
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Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
The administration has now moved to dismantle TPS programs for hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Venezuela, dramatically expanding the pool of those eligible to be arrested and deported by federal immigration authorities.
—July 7, CBS News, 7 July 2025
Abrego Garcia became a flash point over President Trump’s immigration policies when he was deported in March to a notorious megaprison in El Salvador.
—Michael Kunzelman, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2025
He was deported to Egypt on a flight departing on Thursday.
—Elaine Mallon, The Washington Examiner, 26 June 2025
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Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
The administration has now moved to dismantle TPS programs for hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Venezuela, dramatically expanding the pool of those eligible to be arrested and deported by federal immigration authorities.
—July 7, CBS News, 7 July 2025
Abrego Garcia became a flash point over President Trump’s immigration policies when he was deported in March to a notorious megaprison in El Salvador.
—Michael Kunzelman, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2025
He was deported to Egypt on a flight departing on Thursday.
—Elaine Mallon, The Washington Examiner, 26 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deport
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And what of Matthias Schoenaerts’ Booker, who was exiled for betraying the Old Guard as part of a bid to cure his eternality?—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
2 July 2025
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Jorge Mas Canosa, the father of David Beckham’s co-owners at Inter Miami, Jorge and Jose, was one of many who exiled from Cuba after the rise of Fidel Castro.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
28 June 2025
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Valle was acquitted on Wednesday on charges of murder, intentional manslaughter and intentional assault.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
10 July 2025
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In October 2005, a Finnish court acquitted Gustafsson, ruling the evidence against him was too weak and inconsistent.—
Christina Coulter,
People.com,
8 July 2025
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Vera, the daughter of a Russian father and Korean mother, may be banished to second-class citizenry.—
Mark Athitakis,
Los Angeles Times,
3 July 2025
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During those frenzied years in the 1960s and 1970s, authorities banished Xi from the capital and subjected him to solitary confinement and physical abuse.—
JOSEPH TORIGIAN,
Foreign Affairs,
23 June 2025
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This level carries a monthly charge of €14.99 or €149 per year.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
5 July 2025
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All six would have to make a stop to change into a long dress, don a wig, and carry a handbag filled with bricks to the finish line on Power’s stage.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
5 July 2025
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For example: The strike on Iran demonstrated America’s unique global military reach and its ability, together with Israel, to reshape the Middle East while relegating Russia and China — nominally Iran’s allies — to the sidelines.—
Hal Brands,
Twin Cities,
13 July 2025
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Why were the ordinary women so prominent, the holy scene relegated to the background?—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
11 July 2025
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Because Ireland is an Anglophone country with large diasporas located in the United Kingdom and the United States, it is assumed that politics should behave a little bit like the two nations who pump so much influence back into it through the mass media produced in London, New York, and Hollywood.—
Michael Brendan Dougherty,
National Review,
11 July 2025
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Now, another Russian satellite is behaving in the same way, with a mothership opening up to release a smaller object that could in turn reveal its own surprise inside like a Matryoshka nesting doll.—
Robert Pearlman,
ArsTechnica,
11 July 2025
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Jessie was evicted in a blindside, flipping the season’s power dynamic and cementing Jeff’s place as a fan favorite.—
Dalton Ross,
EW.com,
5 July 2025
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After his family was evicted from their home in Hawaii, Johnson was sent to live with his father in Nashville.—
Diana Leyva,
The Tennessean,
1 July 2025
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There have been no recorded shoe bombings, in the sky or on the ground, since passengers and crew subdued and restrained Reid on that 2001 flight.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
10 July 2025
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Crew members and passengers noticed and restrained him.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
9 July 2025
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“Deport.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deport. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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