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Recent Examples of evacuee
The same lawmakers who once expressed outrage over the Afghanistan withdrawal are now silent as those evacuees — and many others — are funneled into a militarized detention system.
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Chris Purdy, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
The district's school resource officer, Toni Olson, who is also a member of the Germantown Police Department, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that a Super 8 hotel near the Performing Arts Center offered rooms for evacuees who needed somewhere to stay overnight.
—Alec Johnson, jsonline.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Dekel was founded by many of those evacuees.
—Larry Luxner, Sun Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2025
The commissioner has long-been a proponent of providing insurance benefits to those affected by evacuation - in 2020, Lara sponsored Senate Bill 872, which required insurers to provide at least two weeks of benefits to evacuees among other measures.
—Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
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refugee
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In the wake of the stabbing death of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte, North Carolina, light rail train, the state legislature introduced a bill to crack down on bail for violent offenders, drawing praise from one crime expert.—
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Gaza is home to the highest number of child amputees per capita worldwide, the head of the UN’s agency for Palestine refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, said on Wednesday.—
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“Evacuee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evacuee. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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