emigrant
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McCoy, 45, has since relocated to Romania and works as a consultant helping other Americans with more limited means join the emigrant wave.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 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
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
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
Josh Taggart from Ballymoney in County Antrim is one of the newer generation, although he follows in the footsteps of the Ulster-Scots emigrants who provided so many early US presidents.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2025
The emigrants confused the gods by diverting their curses, misleading them with crooked streets and false names.
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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