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emigrant

[em-i-gruhnt] / ˈɛm ɪ grənt /


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McCoy, 45, has since relocated to Romania and works as a consultant helping other Americans with more limited means join the emigrant wave.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 26, 2026

His wife Heidi Goodwin and her family have been Nature Friends regulars since the early 1960s, when their German emigrant father Benno Werstein joined.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 22, 2025

I’m a Russian emigrant journalist and former political activist.

From Slate Oct. 18, 2025

By then, Liverpool emigrant Ron Harper was renowned on the Sydney music scene as both a piano tuner and a performer.

From BBC Jun. 21, 2025

I minded that the emigrant villagers shook their heads at my sister and me.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

Havana announced this week that it would allow Cuban emigrants to invest to address the communist island's severe economic and energy crises.

From Barron's Mar. 21, 2026

Are the new American emigrants a credit to the strength of their homeland’s economy?

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 26, 2026

The sport, which predates hockey by several decades, was brought to Montreal by Scottish emigrants during the colonial period, more than a half-century before Canada became a country.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 28, 2025

Remarkably, there is little to no accurate real-time data about the number of actual emigrants.

From MarketWatch Oct. 18, 2025

How did the descendants of Chinese emigrants become transformed into Polynesians?

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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