Example Sentences

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The emotional weight of displacement, the legal limbo of statelessness and geopolitics around the Dalai Lama hung heavy on the birthday celebrations.

From BBC • Aug. 11, 2025

I’m a product of statelessness and generational displacement.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2023

The project has become a device, she says, through which she can talk about the country of her birth, to examine the state of being in diaspora, of statelessness.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2021

Futurism gives Tbakhi a way to step outside the common discourse that focuses on international policy and Palestinian statelessness.

From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2021

“One of the many things that inspired this album was the realisation that this shift created a sort of statelessness in me,” Sumney says.

From The Guardian • Feb. 29, 2020