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emigrant

[em-i-gruhnt] / ˈɛm ɪ grənt /


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Attacking midfielder Christian Pulisic’s grandfather was a Croatian emigrant.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 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

Muslims make up about 4% of Myanmar's resident population and 36% of its emigrant population.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2024

Under U.N. law each emigrant automatically received possession of an android subtype of his choice, and, by 2019, the variety of subtypes passed all understanding, in the manner of American automobiles of the 1960s.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

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

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

From MarketWatch Oct. 18, 2025

Sheinbaum, the granddaughter of emigrants from Bulgaria and Lithuania, would be Mexico’s first president of Jewish ancestry, in addition to its first female president.

From Los Angeles Times May 30, 2024

They were Europeans, or descendants of European emigrants to America.

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




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