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emigrate

[em-i-greyt] / ˈɛm ɪˌgreɪt /
VERB
move to new country
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According to a recent survey by the ONDH, 74 percent of 500 young people living near the border said they followed accounts or content related to preparing to emigrate.

From Barron's Aug. 15, 2026

He's a Moroccan man in his twenties and wants to emigrate to Europe - not least because he's been seeing lots of videos on Instagram that make the trip look easy.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

Zemlinsky did manage to emigrate to New York but died of pneumonia in 1942 without having been able to revive his career.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 2026

Talented young Hungarians continued to emigrate to Western Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 13, 2026

The Nazis struck the final blow to Jewish emigration in 1941 when they forbade Jews between the ages of eighteen and forty-five to emigrate.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

The two lose contact for 12 years after Nora’s family emigrates to the United States and reconnect after Hae-sung finds her again on Facebook.

From Salon Apr. 19, 2024

The top prize for best feature went to drama Past Lives, about childhood sweethearts in South Korea who are separated when one emigrates to the US.

From BBC Nov. 28, 2023

“No one emigrates from their country because they want to. One migrates because you have basic needs and there isn’t support in your native country,” she said, starting to cry.

From Seattle Times Oct. 6, 2023

It also alluded to a social reality — the way kitchen houses are locked up when a family emigrates.

From New York Times Apr. 14, 2022

Nine times out of ten it is because he feels confident he can increase the comfort and happiness of his wife and children that the settler emigrates to Western Canada.

From Canada West by Canada. Dept. of the interior

More than one million people died during the Irish famine between 1845 and 1852, when Ireland was part of the United Kingdom, and about two million emigrated over the following decade.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

Sitting in a circle, students, retirees and professionals share similar worries: blackouts, economic hardship, relatives who have emigrated and plans put on hold.

From Barron's Aug. 4, 2026

“We had no choice to leave Cuba, we couldn’t take it anymore,” said Jorge Ruiz, a professional baseball player from Havana who emigrated eight months ago and recently joined Curitiba’s Latinos team.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

Born in 1947 in Northern Ireland, Neill emigrated to New Zealand at the age of 7.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

In 1952, Karl-Heinz Schnibbe emigrated to the United States, where he lives in Utah.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

The menu revolves around the food of Barsoom’s native Egypt, where she lived before emigrating to Canada in 2000.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 11, 2026

Many Britons have taken the leap by emigrating to Australia for a "better life", but one man has taken the plunge in order to build a better life back home in Wales.

From BBC May 17, 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

European herders and farmers emigrating to other continents have also made serious efforts to domesticate some local species.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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