emigrant
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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
Myanmar has a lower percentage of Muslims in its population of residents compared with its emigrant population.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2024
Living among one’s own emigrant villagers can give a good Chinese far from China glory and a place.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
Tens of thousands of emigrants from Ireland, desperate to escape the famine ravaging their home country, landed in 1847 at the Grosse Île quarantine station in what is now the Canadian province of Quebec.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 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
“More people who were born in India are living elsewhere than from any other country of origin, but these millions of emigrants represent a small fraction of India's population.”
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2024
Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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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