emigrant
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The emigrant ship is one of many familiar images from Irish history that surface throughout Ms. O’Farrell’s saga, which largely spans the period from 1865 to after the Irish Civil War.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 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
Those in the emigrant generations who could not reassert brute survival died young and far from home.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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
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
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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