émigré
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“Always,” Ms. Korsgaard wryly notes of the Russian émigré, “order nestles side by side with ardor.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
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
While he was at Harvard, the teaching of architectural history was practically banned by modernists, including the émigré professor Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus school.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 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
In 1950 she married Yugoslav emigre doctor Milko Skofic, who became her manager.
From Reuters ● Jan. 16, 2023
“You know what that means?” he told Edward Teller, a fellow Hungarian emigre.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Learning Portuguese has often been a struggle for Cuban émigrés.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
They range from long-time expats to émigrés who have fast-tracked citizenship applications to new countries since the invasion began in 2022.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
Salome Zourabichvili was born in France in 1952 into a prominent family of Georgian émigrés.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2024
A wedding has lured back two of the émigrés among them, but Claire, the bride-to-be, has always lived at home.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
In time, these émigrés to the new continent would redraw its maps.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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