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immigrate

verb as in enter a foreign area intending to live there

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Born in a Ghanaian refugee camp to Liberian parents who were fleeing a civil war, Davies immigrated to Canada with his family when he was 5.

“I feel powerless not being able to pay them,” Solis, who immigrated from Mexico as a teenager, said in Spanish.

The Soviet Union had denied their request to immigrate to Israel, given how Israel’s Western allies and its victory in the Six-Day War in 1967 had led to frosty diplomatic relations between it and the Soviet Union.

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The first project we remember working on together was drawing scenes from the picture books that our mom brought with her when she immigrated from the USSR.

Yang’s parents had both immigrated from Taiwan, and met in grad school.

The irony in it, today, is that it encourages Jews from countries like France to immigrate into Israel, thus making it stronger.

It was easier for my family to leave the Soviet Union and immigrate to Canada!

Scores of Chinese in Guangdong province began to immigrate to California through the Port of San Francisco.

Two individuals didn't immigrate to the United States from the Chechen Republican in Russia.

Many others have endured huge obstacles and lengthy waits to immigrate legally.

If island formed continent, some species would emerge and immigrate.

The wretched survivors, who are there set at liberty, are immediately seduced to "immigrate" to the West Indies.

Sure I'm at the jumpin'-off place now, and to immigrate furder would be to put meself in the hands of the murtherin' redskins.

The real Portuguese immigrate in families and show very little money on landing.

The desire to immigrate, stimulated by the transportation companies, spread like a fever.

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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to immigrate, such as: arrive, migrate, colonize, settle, come in, and go in.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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