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someone who has fled their homeland to getaway from a dangerous or difficult situation; or related to such people

refugees = people who fled their homeland to getaway from a dangerous or difficult situation

refugee = relating to people who fled their homeland

refugee = someone who has fled their homeland because of fear of persecution or violence

Already burdened with nearly two million Afghan refugees, Pakistan had closed its borders to Afghans in January of that year.
Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns

refugees = people who fled their homeland

Mattie used to talk about the Underground Railroad, by which she meant these churches and the people who carried refugees between them,
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Bean Trees

refugees = people fleeing their homeland (in this case, fleeing slavery in the South)

He told people that he was a refugee from Tokyo whose relatives were all dead, a story that, in postwar Japan, was as common as white rice.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

refugee = someone who fled their homeland

Here we were, like fleeing refugees, trekking in from some ruined zone of war.
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston -- Farewell to Manzanar

refugees = people fleeing their homeland

Early the third morning Tom Sawyer wisely went poking among some old empty hogsheads down behind the abandoned slaughter-house, and in one of them he found the refugee.
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

refugee = someone who fled their homeland

Instead, the war raged on, this time between Afghans, the Mujahedin, against the Soviet puppet government of Najibullah, and Afghan refugees kept flocking to Pakistan.
Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner

refugees = people fleeing their homeland

refugee = someone who fled their homeland

Refugees from the now occupied blocks are streaming toward the Capitol's center.
Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay

refugees = people who have fled

He fancied that some plot might be in process of formation against the unhappy refugee.
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame

refugee = person who fled their homeland

They opened the doors of their homes, schools and mosques to the refugees.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

refugees = people who left their homeland because of fear of persecution or violence

Rowan welcomes refugees and new arrivals every day.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom

refugees = people who fled their homeland

All war films. One very good one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean.
George Orwell -- 1984

refugees = people who fled their homeland

She wore the same brown-checked Chinese dress until the Refugee Welcome Society gave her two handme-down dresses, all too large in sizes for American women.
Amy Tan -- The Joy Luck Club

refugee = someone who fled their homeland

As refugees from the French Revolution and from the slave revolts in the French West Indies poured into Philadelphia, French fashion and language became very popular.
Laurie Halse Anderson -- Fever, 1793

refugees = people who fled their homeland

I wanted to say, Because I just want to be normal for a little while—not a refugee girl looking for her mother, but a regular girl paying a summer visit to Tiburon, South Carolina.
Sue Monk Kidd -- The Secret Life of Bees

refugee = someone fleeing their homeland

I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.
Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale

refugees = people who fled their homeland

The family are refugees and have no medical records.
Warren St. John -- Outcasts United

refugees = people who fled their homeland

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