How to Use stateless in a Sentence
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But Gazans would still be stateless, and for all its rhetoric, Hamas cannot change that by force.
—The Economist, 17 May 2018
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One of the stateless boys, 14-year-old Adul Sam-on, may have helped save everyone’s lives.
—Christianna Silva, Teen Vogue, 11 July 2018
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Ashkar and her parents were born stateless and have never lived in Palestine.
—Susan Dunne, courant.com, 11 Sep. 2017
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It was supposed to be a defining moment for the world's largest stateless ethnic group.
—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2017
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There are a lot of people born in the Dominican Republic that are stateless.
—Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
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Around two million people live in Gaza, most of them the stateless descendants of refugees from what is now Israel.
—NBC News, 20 June 2018
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Two of the dealers became Dutch nationals, while the others were stateless.
—Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2023
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Then, Willard ran for president in 2012 based on his record as a stateless businessman.
—Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 16 Feb. 2018
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In the decades since, the agency has taken on many functions of a state for stateless Palestinians, such as providing food, health care and schools.
—Joyce Sohyun Lee, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
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With the fall of Bankman-Fried’s empire, all eyes turned to Binance, the stateless exchange with a reputation for rule-skirting.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2023
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In the meantime, they were classified as stateless and issued gray alien passports.
—Tacita Vero’, Slate Magazine, 13 Mar. 2017
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Will tensions cool—or will the move simply set up another conflict between the Turkish state and the stateless Kurds?
—Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
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Three of the soccer players and their coach are all stateless ethnic minorities, according to The New York Times.
—Christianna Silva, Teen Vogue, 11 July 2018
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Because nationality in Bahrain is passed through the father, the child was stateless from birth.
—Kristen Chick, Washington Post, 8 July 2017
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Three of the players as well as Ekapol were stateless and were granted Thai citizenship last August.
—Washington Post, 23 June 2019
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The Rohingya became the largest stateless population within a country in the world.
—New York Times, 8 Aug. 2019
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But following the rise of the Nazis in 1933 and her husband's death two years later, Johanna Margarete fled to the Netherlands and was declared stateless.
—Hafsa Khalil, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
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Under the Assad regime, Kurds were forbidden to teach in their own language, and hundreds of thousands were stateless.
—The Economist, 18 Oct. 2017
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No country would take in these stateless, penniless Jews.
—Andrea Bernstein, ProPublica, 8 Jan. 2020
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For 75 years now, they have been forced to live as a stateless population without the ability to return to their homeland.
—Michael Vicente Perez, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2023
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Qawuqji was a stateless man, wanted by nearly every colonial power in the Middle East, and yet not fully trusted by many of the Arab leaders at the time.
—Jackson Holahan, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Aug. 2017
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Many Muslims fear they will be declared stateless persons.
—Sanjay Kumar, Science | AAAS, 20 Jan. 2020
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Reason: general order against stateless Jews between the ages of sixteen and forty-five.
—Cynthia Zarin, The New Yorker, 15 May 2017
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Nor can hatred in Myanmar of the largely stateless Muslim group be dismissed as a fringe attitude.
—Hannah Beech, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
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Siddiq, now 33, thinks the Rohingya will be stateless forever.
—Max Bearak, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2017
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His family is stateless and he’s haunted by the torture his late father suffered when displaced in Kuwait.
—Lorraine Alitelevision Critic, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2022
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This is one of the world’s largest stateless populaces and it’s constantly in danger, sandwiched between Turkey and Iran.
—Michael Snyder, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022
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The decision to cancel his visa leaves him effectively stateless, and in limbo, like the others.
—Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
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Two family members claimed to be stateless when they were accepted as refugees.
—Rod McGuirk, The Seattle Times, 15 May 2017
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The only time the 1961 Convention rules comes into play is on the rare occasion when the child would otherwise be stateless; in that case, the airline’s country of origin will determine the passport.
—Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Jan. 2024
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