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emigrant

[em-i-gruhnt] / ˈɛm ɪ grənt /


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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

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

The figures run roughly 50% above the number of emigrants in the same time frame a decade ago, draining doctors, engineers and Ph.D.s in what Israeli lawmakers have called a “tsunami.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

The tumult of 20th century Europe saw a new influx of Spaniard emigrants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 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

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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