émigré

In 1778 John Singleton Copley, the American émigré artist, fresh from a successful career as a colonial portraitist, turned to this scene.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025

Although George isn’t based on Görög, Nathan says it was immediately apparent that as a Hungarian living in Hollywood, he must have been a war émigré.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

But the life of a political émigré, increasingly out of touch and irrelevant, was not for him.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2024

But Russian émigré journalist Arkady Ostrovsky, in his book "The Invention of Russia," explains how that Wild West atmosphere came to exist in the first place.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2023

Fortunately the student was a recent émigré from Poland named Marie Curie.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Szalay's sixth novel tells the tortured story of a Hungarian emigre who makes and loses a fortune and moves to London before returning to his home country.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2025

The Central Intelligence Agency’s Manhattan-based “book club” office was run by an emigre from Romania named George Midden, who managed to send 10 million books behind the Iron Curtain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2025

Frank Marshall, one of Morphy’s great successors and the reigning U.S. champ for decades, tied for first at the 1923 event, but his co-winner, Belarus-born emigre Abraham Kupchik, deserves to be better known.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 11, 2023

Around that time, he met Swietlana Garbarska, a Jewish emigre from Poland who went by Swannie.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 15, 2021

Many of the American and European emigre scientists who developed the first nuclear weapons were profoundly distressed about the demon they had let loose on the world.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Learning Portuguese has often been a struggle for Cuban émigrés.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Salome Zourabichvili was born in France in 1952 into a prominent family of Georgian émigrés.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2024

Maurice Zolotow’s biography, “Billy Wilder in Hollywood,” despises the man while admiring the artist and overlaps with Otto Friedrich’s “City of Nets,” about German and Austrian émigrés lost and disoriented in 1940s L.A.

From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2024

There have been many films about émigrés, in genres ranging from comedies to dramas to documentaries ever since Charlie Chaplin's 1917 short, "The Immigrant."

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2023

In time, these émigrés to the new continent would redraw its maps.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee