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refugees

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  1. People who flee a nation, often to escape punishment for their political affiliations or for political dissent.

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Iranians without electricity or water would soon need external supplies or become refugees to neighboring countries and beyond.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Far fewer North Korean refugees make it to South Korea these days than did in the past.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

In 1939, more than 900 Jewish refugees who were fleeing Nazi Germany aboard the MS St. Louis were turned away by Cuba and the United States.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

Burma has been in a brutal civil war, and for over seven decades, generations of refugees have been forced out, each fleeing their own harrowing chapter of persecution.

From Slate • Mar. 19, 2026

With supplies shrinking and his men dropping, Cornwallis coldly started to force many refugees out of the town.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

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