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the land of one's birth, residence, or citizenship
tries to return every year to Italy, her homeland for the first two decades of her life
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Ghana When Ghana declared 2019 the Year of Return, one of the major goals of the program was to inspire members of the African diaspora—specifically Black Americans descended from victims of the transatlantic slave trade—to embark on a birthright journey to their ancestral homeland.
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Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Nov. 2024
German-Americans and Italian-Americans ‒ whose ancestral homelands were also at war with the U.S. ‒ were taken into custody, too, though not in the same numbers.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2024
Signatories included former Illinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger, Olivia Troye, a former homeland security and counterterrorism adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence, and William Webster, former director of both the CIA and FBI.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
In between, the outlines of their homeland shifted again and again, with the Napoleonic invasion of Hessen, in 1806, the Congress of Vienna and post-Napoleonic redivisions of Europe, and, eventually, the rise of Otto von Bismarck.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Homeland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homeland. Accessed 4 Dec. 2024.
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