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1. Refugees

   "Refugees" is the fourth episode of the fourth season of the HBO original series The Wire. Written by Dennis Lehane from a story by Ed Burns & Dennis Lehane, and directed by Jim McKay, it originally aired on October 1, 2006.

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1. Refugees

   Persons fleeing to a place of safety, especially those who flee to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution in their own country or habitual residence because of race, religion, or political belief. (Webster, 3d ed)

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1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'refugees' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4638

How to pronounce refugees?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say refugees in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of refugees in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of refugees in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of refugees in a Sentence

1. Lyall Grant:

   Well no, there's some difficulties with the text, particularly language on time scales, new language on refugees. So I think we would have some difficulties.

2. Barack Obama:

   Slamming the door in the face of refugees would betray our deepest values. That's not who we are. And it's not what we're going to do.

3. German Chancellor Angela Merkel:

   Originally, Greece should have created 50,000 accommodation places for refugees by the end of 2015, the backlog must be resolved now at lightning speed because the Greek government has to guarantee decent accommodation.

4. Sheikh Thamer:

   I am just wondering what a free ride is when we do all of these things, when we share intelligence, when we open our air, land and sea, when we spend billions of dollars in trying to combat terrorism and trying to help the Syrian refugees, how is it free?

5. Mario Morcone:

   Another 100 refugees will leave at the beginning of next week for France, Spain and maybe Sweden, so far, offers from other countries to take them has been limited.

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