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migrant

[mahy-gruhnt] / ˈmaɪ grənt /


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On Tuesday, the UK signed a two-month extension on a £476m deal made with France by the previous government for extra patrols to disrupt migrant smuggling gangs.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

In the 2023–24 school year, migrant students accounted for 2.7% of California’s homeless student population — double the national share among homeless students reported the previous year, according to the study.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

Governments in Asia have been scrambling to bring migrant workers home.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

"Everyone is worried," said 29-year-old labourer Bunty Goswami, a migrant worker at a shut plant.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

They turn out to be little separate creatures, the colonial posterity of migrant prokaryocytes, probably primitive bacteria that swam into ancestral precursors of our eukaryotic cells and stayed there.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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