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homelands

noun

plural of homeland

as in homes

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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Recent Examples of homelands Ripped from their homelands, many were brutally beaten and forced to convert to Christianity. — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026 We've been reclaiming a lot of our ancestral homelands, our village site which is Verona Marina. — Carmela Karcher, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2026 Seminole and Miccosukee people denounced it as a threat to their sacred homelands. — The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2026 The lessons of the civil rights movement, the language and songs of homelands, our stories, music and cuisines, have so much power. — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026 But this is another story entirely, full of its own complications of immigration and homelands and politics, a story of a difficult and fractured relationship with a parent, a story of a debilitating disease. — Literary Hub, 20 July 2026 Still, the majority of workers in the Gulf countries have chosen to stay given the absence of better economic opportunities in their homelands. — Sarah Yerkes, Time, 10 July 2026 In the 1700s, when West Africans were shackled and shipped to the South Carolina–Georgia seaboard, some were forced to work in rice paddies, in cotton fields, and on indigo plantations, where the moist climate resembled that of their homelands. — Jeanne Malle, Air Mail, 4 July 2026 The Tohono O’odham have continued to welcome outsiders, including the federal government, even when those outsiders have sought to exert further control over the O’odham’s ancestral homelands. — Geraldo L. Cadava, The Atlantic, 20 June 2026

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Federal regulations limit conventional loan amounts to $832,750 in most areas or $1,249,125 or more for luxury properties or homes in expensive cities and states.

— Dan Simms, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2026
Red walls, heavy draperies with swags and fringe, and jacquard fabrics with gold accents could be found in many homes.

— Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Aug. 2026

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Iceland is also a member of the Schengen Area, which allows passport-free travel between it and other participating European countries.

— Sam Meredith, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
Solar attracted the most investment among renewable energy subsectors during the first six months of the year as countries rush to build capacity as worries grow that global wars will continue squeezing energy supplies.

— Eugenia Perozo, semafor.com, 27 Aug. 2026

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