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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

Bestselling author Joseph O'Connor has written extensively about the Irish emigrant experience.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2023

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

Property prices have also gone up in recent weeks in places like Georgia and Armenia, partly in anticipation of another wave of Russian emigrants, say real-estate agents in both countries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 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

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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