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émigré

[em-i-gray, ay-mee-gray] / ˈɛm ɪˌgreɪ, eɪ miˈgreɪ /


emigre


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“Always,” Ms. Korsgaard wryly notes of the Russian émigré, “order nestles side by side with ardor.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

The Grunwald Center was established by German émigré Fred Grunwald in 1956 with an eye toward being a resource for students and for research.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2023

Fortunately the student was a recent émigré from Poland named Marie Curie.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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

The Central Intelligence Agency’s Manhattan-based “book club” office was run by an emigre from Romania named George Midden, who managed to send 10 million books behind the Iron Curtain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2025

He once told an interviewer he considered himself French rather than an emigre.

From Reuters ● Jul. 12, 2023

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

On October 21 Briggs presided over the so-called Uranium Committee’s first meeting, with Szilard, Teller, and Eugene Wigner, another emigre Hungarian physicist, on hand as technical advisors.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

I was born in the United States, but my parents are Soviet émigrés and I grew up bilingual.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Or do these émigrés personify a loss of faith in America’s future and way of life?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 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

In time, these émigrés to the new continent would redraw its maps.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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