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
Bestselling author Joseph O'Connor has written extensively about the Irish emigrant experience.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2023
Whether you’re called an emigrant or an immigrant depends on whether you’re going or coming, and on the point of view of the speaker.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
González has witnessed the ties between Mexico and its emigrants abroad evolve over four decades, starting as a young consular officer in the administration of Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 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
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
Tyler’s account and scores of others even more sinister, particularly those by Jewish emigrants from Germany, fell almost entirely on deaf ears in America that fall.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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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