as in refugee
a person forced to emigrate for political reasons the report said the evacuees would be placed in temporary shelters

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Recent Examples of evacuee The base's proximity to Cyprus' second-largest civilian airport allows for the seamless transfer of evacuees to civilian flights. Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025 By Wednesday evening, some Castaic evacuees were gathered at the Ralph’s shopping center. Corina Knoll, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025 Bases previously have been used for that purpose, and after the 2021 fall of Kabul to the Taliban, they were used to host thousands of Afghan evacuees. Lolita C. Baldor and Tara Copp, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025 The chai, especially, gets five-star reviews from volunteers and evacuees alike. Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for evacuee

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“Evacuee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evacuee. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.

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