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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

How strange that the emigrant villagers are shouters, hollering face to face.

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

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 18, 2025

Among the top destinations for American emigrants are Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024

Tyler’s account and scores of others even more sinister, particularly those by Jewish emigrants from Germany, fell almost entirely on deaf ears in America that fall.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown




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