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emigrate

[em-i-grayt] / ˈɛm ɪˌgreɪt /
VERB
move to new country
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He said it has become the “last straw” for him, and he has decided to leave Venezuela and emigrate to Europe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

He's a Moroccan man in his twenties and wants to emigrate to Europe - not least because he's been seeing lots of videos on Instagram that make the trip look easy.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Zemlinsky did manage to emigrate to New York but died of pneumonia in 1942 without having been able to revive his career.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

The ordeal eventually led Ms. Müller to emigrate to West Berlin in 1987, a bureaucratic torment that she describes here in deliberately tedious detail, to mirror the experience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

It wasn’t by choice, and he wasn’t alone: massive unemployment in Italy had pushed many Italians to emigrate.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

The two lose contact for 12 years after Nora’s family emigrates to the United States and reconnect after Hae-sung finds her again on Facebook.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2024

“No one emigrates from their country because they want to. One migrates because you have basic needs and there isn’t support in your native country,” she said, starting to cry.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2023

Dr Black said contracts are being handed back because there are serious difficulties in finding a replacement when a doctor "retires or emigrates, or resigns".

From BBC ● May 29, 2023

It also alluded to a social reality — the way kitchen houses are locked up when a family emigrates.

From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2022

Hungary, a land in point of the fertility of her soil, as rich as few in Europe, is overloaded with debt, and her population, pauperized and in the hands of usurers, emigrates in large numbers.

From Woman under socialism by Daniel De Leon

My mother was born to parents who emigrated in the 1950s during Batista’s regime.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Ma’s parents emigrated from China and eventually settled in New York.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Her three siblings have already emigrated, and she is considering shutting down her small delicatessen to follow them abroad.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

However, Kennedy was keenly aware of the generation ahead of her who emigrated in the 1940s and 50s.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

A lot of them emigrated, if you can believe the news.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

After emigrating from Russia as a child, Arkatov became the principal cellist at the Pittsburgh and San Francisco symphonies before landing in L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Alex Golesh only discovered the game after emigrating to the U.S. from the Soviet Union.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

The United States is looking to give former Afghan allies stuck in Qatar a choice between emigrating to the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo or returning to their Taliban-ruled homeland, an activist said Tuesday.

From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026

And he, as a young boy, was part of the avocado trade before emigrating to the United States.

From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2026

The same procedure can be applied to reconstruct Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, the ancestral language spoken by Austronesians after emigrating from Taiwan.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond


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