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emigrant

[em-i-gruhnt] / ˈɛm ɪ grənt /


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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

India certainly isn’t unique in having an emigrant population with a religious make-up different from those still living in the country.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2024

I minded that the emigrant villagers shook their heads at my sister and me.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Are the new American emigrants a credit to the strength of their homeland’s economy?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

The sport, which predates hockey by several decades, was brought to Montreal by Scottish emigrants during the colonial period, more than a half-century before Canada became a country.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2025

Remarkably, there is little to no accurate real-time data about the number of actual emigrants.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 18, 2025

So far away from home, the emigrants called themselves jahajiihhai—ship brothers.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson




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