overseas

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Recent Examples of overseas France's own ties to the Indo-Pacific are strong, with more than 1.6 million of its citizens living in the region in French overseas territories. David Rising, Arkansas Online, 31 May 2025 Among the memo’s most alarming revelations is the claim that high-ranking officials—such as María Iris Varela Rangel, who oversaw Venezuela’s prison system, and Diosdado Cabello—have directly orchestrated the release and overseas deployment of TDA operatives. Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 29 May 2025 Despite concerns about the Harvard ban, Alex Zeng, an overseas education consultant based in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, said American universities remained the top choice for many Chinese students. Jennifer Jett, NBC news, 27 May 2025 His big win was not greeted with rapture by Iranian state media, who gave Panahi’s overseas win limited coverage. Caroline Frost, Deadline, 26 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for overseas
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overseas
Adjective
  • In an executive order dated Feb. 4, Trump ordered a review within 180 days of U.S. participation in and funding for all international organizations, including the United Nations.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 1 June 2025
  • Any chilling effect would also come with international tourism expected to be dented this year, costing $12.5 billion in spending, due to negative perceptions of trade and immigration policy.
    Jenni Reid, CNBC, 1 June 2025
Adjective
  • Over 70% of the full-time graduate students in key technical fields at U.S. universities are foreign-born.
    Stuart Anderson, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
  • Labor Department data shows that almost 68 percent of crop workers employed in the United States during the 2021-22 fiscal year were foreign-born.
    Ana Ley, New York Times, 30 May 2025
Adjective
  • The alliance worked with numerous nonprofit organizations and programs to protect, rescue, train and care for animals and preserve their habitat, while raising public awareness about issues that concern domestic, farm, exotic, wild and native animals.
    Christie D’Zurilla, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2025
  • The 1,600-year-old mosaic intricately details scenes of hunting, exotic animals, mythological figures, fruit, and daily life within 55 medallions.
    Francesca Aton for ArtNews, Robb Report, 29 May 2025
Adjective
  • The trick was to keep them distant and yet connected, and find ways to not make the audience wait to see their chemistry, because the John Corbett and Sarah Jessica Parker chemistry is undeniable and a gift.
    Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 29 May 2025
  • Within 23 hours, the signals will be as far from Earth as NASA’s Voyager 1, the world’s most distant spacecraft at more than 15 billion miles in interstellar space.
    Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2025
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  • Bernadette Nixon, Algolia’s CEO, said the company’s new agentic implementation isn’t a far-off dream, but an immediate reality.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 2 June 2025
  • As of now, Planet Nine remains all but a theory, but the existence of this far-off world rests on gravitational patterns in the outer solar system.
    Nick Butler, FOXNews.com, 31 May 2025
Adjective
  • After all, there exist legions who will not miss the biennial festival for anything in the world—those of us who, religiously and ritualistically, take planes, trains and automobiles to reach a remote fishing village in Jamaica where some 3000 people gather in the name of the holy word.
    Baz Dreisinger, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
  • On a remote island in northern Norway, metal detectorists stumbled upon a pair of bronze treasures.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 4 June 2025
Adjective
  • Much of Washington Heights is old farmland The area's earliest nonindigenous civilization in the Washington Heights area began in 1835.
    Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The lizard may also have or spread nonindigenous parasites or pathogens to native wildlife.
    Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2024
Adjective
  • Once confined to prison networks in Venezuela’s Aragua state, TDA has grown into a sprawling, multinational criminal syndicate.
    Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 29 May 2025
  • The reach of these programs, and China’s dominant role in the global economy, mean a wide range of multinational companies rely on suppliers that have received Uyghur workers.
    David Pierson, New York Times, 29 May 2025

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“Overseas.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overseas. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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