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expatriate
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expatriate as in:  she is an expatriate

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  • She spent her days developing her skill in the large waves and her nights around a campfire with many other surfing expatriates and hippie characters who had migrated to the shores of Kauai.†  (source)
  • To the Consul's generation and to all those who lived in the slow, expatriate fringe of things, Kassad was not someone one was likely to forget.†  (source)
  • Winterbourne, the man whose attention she desires, while both attracted to and repulsed by her, ultimately proves too fearful of the disapproval of his established expatriate American community to pursue her further.†  (source)
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  • She also observed aid programs that spent primarily on expatriate staff and didn't know what they were doing.†  (source)
  • She began to socialize with other American expatriates.†  (source)
  • I cautioned him that I must hear no more of that; that he was not at all likely to obtain a pardon; that he was expatriated for the term of his natural life; and that his presenting himself in this country would be an act of felony, rendering him liable to the extreme penalty of the law.†  (source)
  • One of his major themes was "superfluous Jews," and he scribbled away at length about the matter of "pop ulation transfer" and "expatriation."†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • We could invent an American expatriate who several years ago was hunted by the authorities throughout the Far East for crimes ranging from multiple murders to running narcotics.†  (source)
  • Rhonda Brown recalled a softball game she and Luma played with a group of American diplomats and expatriates.†  (source)
  • One thing alone frightened her; that was the remembrance of her husband, the Comte de la Fere, whom she had believed dead, or at least expatriated, and whom she found again in Athos-the best friend of d'Artagnan.†  (source)
  • With many of these amiable colonists Mrs. Touchett was intimate; she shared their expatriation, their convictions, their pastimes, their ennui.†  (source)
  • Don't you let this lousy ex-expatriate come here and turn your head.†  (source)
  • Anaheim had been settled in the late nineteenth century by German immigrants hoping to create a local wine industry and by a group of Polish expatriates trying to establish a back-to-the-land artistic community.†  (source)
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