emigrant
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The emigrant ship is one of many familiar images from Irish history that surface throughout Ms. O’Farrell’s saga, which largely spans the period from 1865 to after the Irish Civil War.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
His wife Heidi Goodwin and her family have been Nature Friends regulars since the early 1960s, when their German emigrant father Benno Werstein joined.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025
I’m a Russian emigrant journalist and former political activist.
From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2025
Myanmar has a lower percentage of Muslims in its population of residents compared with its emigrant population.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2024
How strange that the emigrant villagers are shouters, hollering face to face.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
The figures run roughly 50% above the number of emigrants in the same time frame a decade ago, draining doctors, engineers and Ph.D.s in what Israeli lawmakers have called a “tsunami.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Havana announced this week that it would allow Cuban emigrants to invest to address the communist island's severe economic and energy crises.
From Barron's ● Mar. 21, 2026
Remarkably, there is little to no accurate real-time data about the number of actual emigrants.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 18, 2025
Among the top destinations for American emigrants are Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024
How did the descendants of Chinese emigrants become transformed into Polynesians?
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing emigrant
"Democracy in America, Vol. 1" by Alexis de Tocqueville, Introduction–Chapter 5
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Chapter 13: Manifest Destiny
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G.3: Spatial Reorganization (Sources 1–10)
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