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  • 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.  (source)
    refugee = someone fleeing their homeland
  • Most of those people, he said, were either dead or in refugee camps in Pakistan.  (source)
    refugee = related to people who fled their homeland
  • In the refugee settlements most of the children were not going to school.  (source)
    refugee = related to people who left their homeland because of fear of persecution or violence
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  • "We're refugees from the tribal wars, and we need money," the other figure said.  (source)
    refugees = people who have fled from a dangerous place
  • 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.  (source)
    refugee = someone who fled their homeland
  • I've heard stories of a fever among the Santo Domingan refugees.  (source)
    refugees = people who fled their homeland
  • They were selling them at the door, only five dollars each, to raise money for the Refugee Scholarship Fund.  (source)
    Refugee = related to people who fled their homeland
  • Refugees from the now occupied blocks are streaming toward the Capitol's center.  (source)
    Refugees = people who have fled
  • 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.  (source)
    refugee = someone who fled their homeland
  • Here we were, like fleeing refugees, trekking in from some ruined zone of war.  (source)
    refugees = people fleeing their homeland
  • Maybe she saw me as a needy refugee from the war  (source)
    refugee = someone who fled their homeland
  • The family are refugees and have no medical records.  (source)
    refugees = people who fled their homeland
  • Highways full of crowds going somewhere, somewhere, somewhere, nowhere. The gasoline refugee. Towns turn into motels, people in nomadic surges from place to place...  (source)
    refugee = someone who fled their homeland
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