émigré
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In 1778 John Singleton Copley, the American émigré artist, fresh from a successful career as a colonial portraitist, turned to this scene.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
But the life of a political émigré, increasingly out of touch and irrelevant, was not for him.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2024
But Russian émigré journalist Arkady Ostrovsky, in his book "The Invention of Russia," explains how that Wild West atmosphere came to exist in the first place.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2023
Given its symbiotic relationship with commerce, it should be no surprise that the progenitor of the mass-produced cardboard box, a Scottish émigré named Robert Gair, was himself a manufacturer.
From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2022
Fortunately the student was a recent émigré from Poland named Marie Curie.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Among the emigre newcomers were Jacques Gelman and Natasha Zahalka.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Szalay's sixth novel tells the tortured story of a Hungarian emigre who makes and loses a fortune and moves to London before returning to his home country.
From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2025
Frank Marshall, one of Morphy’s great successors and the reigning U.S. champ for decades, tied for first at the 1923 event, but his co-winner, Belarus-born emigre Abraham Kupchik, deserves to be better known.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 11, 2023
Her emigre father, Josef Korbel, taught at the University of Denver, where one of his star graduate students was a young Russia scholar named Condoleezza Rice.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2022
“You know what that means?” he told Edward Teller, a fellow Hungarian emigre.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Learning Portuguese has often been a struggle for Cuban émigrés.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Salome Zourabichvili was born in France in 1952 into a prominent family of Georgian émigrés.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2024
There have been many films about émigrés, in genres ranging from comedies to dramas to documentaries ever since Charlie Chaplin's 1917 short, "The Immigrant."
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2023
He is the American-born son of Soviet Jewish émigrés, a former employee of The New York Times, and now, essentially, a hostage of the Russian state.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2023
In time, these émigrés to the new continent would redraw its maps.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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