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

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

Countless individual lives weave into a collective panorama of displacement and statelessness and detention.

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2020

“It was deeply upsetting to meet the families who have only known persecution and statelessness their whole lives, who speak of being ‘treated like cattle’,” Jolie told reporters.

From The Guardian • Feb. 5, 2019