stateside

Or State·side

[steyt-sahyd]

adjective

1. being in or toward the continental U.S.

adverb

1. in or toward the continental U.S.

stateside

/ ˈsteɪtˌsaɪd /

adjective

1. of, in, to, or towards the US

Word History and Origins

Origin of stateside¹

1940–45; (the) States (in the sense “the United States”) + side ¹;

Example Sentences

Following his sojourn in Europe and a brief stint back stateside, he won another fellowship to study in Mexico, where he absorbed the lessons of the activist muralists there.

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“He returned home after almost four and a half years, two of them in combat, thinner and grayer, and feeling much, much older. . . . Stewart delayed returning to work, in part because he didn’t quite know how he would fit into a Hollywood that had survived the war by casting new actors, including Gregory Peck, Dana Andrews, Van Heflin, John Wayne, and Cornel Wilde, in roles that would have been Stewart’s had he stayed stateside.”

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Martinis went on to do a postdoctoral fellowship in France, then returned stateside to Boulder, Colo., where he worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a U.S. government lab.

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He will play four shows overseas — Portugal is nowhere on the lineup — before returning stateside.

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Then there were the asylum-seekers who were flown from the southern border to NYC by vindictive Republican governors; Adams’ job was only made more difficult thanks to the Biden administration, which bafflingly refused to offer federal services and support of the type it had provided when Ukrainian war refugees were resettling stateside.

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