emigrating

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Born in Dublin in 1623, Downing spent his childhood in London before emigrating to New England with his family as part of the Puritan migration.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

And he, as a young boy, was part of the avocado trade before emigrating to the United States.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2026

Those emigrating were "highly qualified individuals" and the public money Cameroon had spent on training them was being lost to their destination countries, he said.

From Barron's • Oct. 11, 2025

The smaller “Icarus Within” focused on Winn’s struggle around the age of 9 in emigrating to the United States in the final days of the Vietnam War.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 21, 2025

Then, through a series of misadventures, the family had ended up in China, finally emigrating to Canada in the twentieth century.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan