Thesaurus results for HOMELAND

homeland

noun

ˈhōm-ˌland

Definition of homeland

as in home

the land of one's birth, residence, or citizenship tries to return every year to Italy, her homeland for the first two decades of her life

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Recent Examples of homeland Their construction has surged under Netanyahu's government, which views the West Bank as the Jewish homeland and opposes a Palestinian state. — ABC News, 19 Oct. 2026 The setting for this multi-generational frolic is a gorgeous Greek island that is nothing like ABBA’s homeland of Sweden. — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026 Noem was appointed special envoy for the Shield of the Americas in March, after she was removed as homeland security secretary amid mounting scrutiny of her management of the department and the influence of her adviser, Corey Lewandowski. — Olivia Gazis, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026 Bears Ears is a living cultural landscape and sacred ancestral homeland of deep significance to Tribal Nations. — Mary Beth Laughton, Time, 14 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for homeland

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Mubarak Bekheit, an aid worker in Darfur, told the AP by phone on Wednesday that many people remained missing and some bodies had yet to be recovered from homes in the area after the strike hit a civilian neighborhood.

— YASSIR ABDALLA, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2026
Bickelhaupt escaped the home and called a ride-sharing service to the airport, intending to travel back to Denver, Colorado, where she was born.

— Zoey Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2026

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On foreign policy, Lula has worked to boost the political influence of countries in the Global South as a founding member of the BRICS group, a grouping of major emerging economies that includes Brazil, China, Russia, India and South Africa.

— Catherine Osborn, NPR, 26 Oct. 2026
Meanwhile, Elon Musk, who has spent more than four hundred million dollars on Republican campaigns this election cycle, slowed Ukraine’s access to his Starshield satellite network, leaving that country more vulnerable to Russian attacks.

— Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2026

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