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emigrate

[em-i-grayt] / ˈɛm ɪˌgreɪt /
VERB
move to new country
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He said it has become the “last straw” for him, and he has decided to leave Venezuela and emigrate to Europe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

"My goal was destroyed, so I decided to emigrate," he said.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 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

Albania has been in a demographic crisis for decades, as people emigrate abroad in search of better work prospects.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

Their parents, like mine, had not had the courage to sell everything and emigrate while there was still time.

From "Night" by Elie Wiesel

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

“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

Dr Black said contracts are being handed back because there are serious difficulties in finding a replacement when a doctor "retires or emigrates, or resigns".

From BBC ● May 29, 2023

But lest we think child migration is new, there’s Ruth Behar’s young adult novel “Letters From Cuba,” about a girl who emigrates solo from Poland to Cuba during World War II.

From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2021

He emigrates southward, he obtains property, according to local law, in a slave.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 by Various

In Boston, Red Auerbach, whose Jewish father emigrated from Russia, coached the Celtics to nine NBA championships between 1957 and 1966.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

My father emigrated from Havana as a child.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

He emigrated from Nigeria with his parents and sister at age 13 in 1991 and lived in Canning Town in east London.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Her three siblings have already emigrated, and she is considering shutting down her small delicatessen to follow them abroad.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

Under the “family history” tab, Molly finds a sepia-toned picture of Agneta and Bernard Schatzman, who emigrated from Germany in 1915, resided at 26 Elizabeth Street.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

He has often talked about his great-grandfather Edmund "Ned" Burke who lived in Drogheda before emigrating with his family to Liverpool in the late 19th Century.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

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

The United States is looking to give former Afghan allies stuck in Qatar a choice between emigrating to the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo or returning to their Taliban-ruled homeland, an activist said Tuesday.

From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026

She’s working on her third novel, on Malaysia, where she was born before emigrating at age 2.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026

The same procedure can be applied to reconstruct Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, the ancestral language spoken by Austronesians after emigrating from Taiwan.

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


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