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immigrate

verb as in enter a foreign area intending to live there

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He said the site employed a large contingent of workers who’d recently immigrated from Latin America, including many who lacked proper documentation.

The Indian businessman immigrated from Malaysia in the 1980s to attend a small college in Ohio.

Born in Taiwan to a mathematician father and accountant mother, Su, 55 years old, immigrated to the U.S. in the early 1970s, when she was 3 years old.

Betancur, whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from South America when he was a toddler, was the first in his family to attend college.

After immigrating to Australia from the Basque Country, a region that straddles the border between France and Spain, the working-class house painter took roughly 13 years to build the family’s home.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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