emigrate
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"If I don't find a job here, I'll have to emigrate again. We have no choice. We can't starve," he added.
From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026
Economic collapse and political repression led roughly 8 million Venezuelans to emigrate since 2014, making it one of the world’s largest displacement crises.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2026
“I was running out of resources and realized if I don’t find a better opportunity, I’m gonna have to emigrate back to Haiti,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
By 1939, Hungary’s crackdown against Jews—and Senesh’s emerging identity as a Zionist—led her to emigrate to the British Mandate for Palestine.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025
In 1886 Japan had for the first time allowed its citizens to emigrate, and thousands from his district had already left the country in search of better opportunities.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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