Hmong
Americannoun
plural
Hmongs,plural
HmongExample Sentences
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Derrick’s friend, Pam Jacobson, 69, noted that even in her predominantly-white suburb, Lino Lakes—some 30 miles outside the city—ICE agents had turned up in search of her Hmong neighbor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026
In the ‘80s and ‘90s, the federal government resettled tens of thousands of Hmong, Lao, Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees in California after the Vietnam War, the Cambodian genocide and the Laotian civil war .
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025
“One of the fallacies is that this is only targeting Latinos. If you look at the Vietnamese, Cambodian, Hmong, Chinese, even Japanese communities, they’re being picked up right in court.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025
Tens of thousands of Hmong soldiers died while others fled to the U.S. as a result of what became known as the “secret war.”
From Seattle Times • May 27, 2024
More than 100,000 Miao-speaking refugees from Vietnam have carried this language family to the United States, where they are better known under the alternative name of Hmong.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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