Thesaurus results for HOMELANDS

homelands

noun

plural of homeland

as in homes

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 homelands AndTribal Nations deserve to know that the Commonwealth’s environmental decisions recognize the cultural and historical significance of the waters that connect our communities to our ancestral homelands. — Dana Adkins, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026 The Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians count the site among their ancestral homelands. — Sean MacAday, Sacbee.com, 20 Sep. 2026 Many turned to places with small but established communities of immigrants from their homelands. — Will Jarrett, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026 The stealing of Native Americans and their homelands is not just a side story in the grand drama of American history. — Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026 At scale, migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands. — Claudia Boyd-Barrett, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2026 Banchi Hanuse works across film and radio as a co-founder of Nuxalk Radio, supporting Nuxalk language revitalization, upholding Nuxalk Nationhood and advocating for stewardship of Nuxalk homelands. — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 31 Aug. 2026 Lake Huron is named after the Huron, or Huron-Wendat people, whose ancestral homelands surround Lake Huron, Pure Michigan says. — Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2026 Ripped from their homelands, many were brutally beaten and forced to convert to Christianity. — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026

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Many rural communities rely on diesel for electricity and to heat their homes.

— Becky Bohrer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
Early microwave ovens were large and expensive, but later designs brought the technology into homes and commercial kitchens.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026

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Rosatom wants to bring nuclear power to that market, saying 38 of Africa’s 54 countries have coastlines suitable for its floating reactors.

— Ruben Nyanguila, semafor.com, 30 Oct. 2026
Our Congress has passed laws prohibiting trade with Russia and sanctioning those countries that do.

— Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2026

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