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emigrate

[em-i-greyt] / ˈɛm ɪˌgreɪt /
VERB
move to new country
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Deteriorating conditions are driving thousands of young people to emigrate to Brazil and Uruguay, said Everleny.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 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

Albania has been in a demographic crisis for decades, as people emigrate abroad in search of better work prospects.

From Barron's Jun. 9, 2026

Given the proximity, many Cubans who do not identify with Havana's politics emigrate to the US, which is one of the reasons why Miami has such a large Cuban-American demographic.

From BBC Mar. 13, 2026

The Nazis struck the final blow to Jewish emigration in 1941 when they forbade Jews between the ages of eighteen and forty-five to emigrate.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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

She emigrates with Dan'el Pegot'ty, and marries a young farmer in Australia.—C.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

More than one million people died during the Irish famine between 1845 and 1852, when Ireland was part of the United Kingdom, and about two million emigrated over the following decade.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

A Muslim whose parents emigrated from Egypt, he graduated from the University of Michigan, where he was on the lacrosse team.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Sitting in a circle, students, retirees and professionals share similar worries: blackouts, economic hardship, relatives who have emigrated and plans put on hold.

From Barron's Aug. 4, 2026

Born in 1947 in Northern Ireland, Neill emigrated to New Zealand at the age of 7.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

That year, and for the following few years, the representative was a Mr. Serin, a former director of prisons in his native Sweden who had emigrated to Rhodesia.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

He has often talked about his great-grandfather Edmund "Ned" Burke who lived in Drogheda before emigrating with his family to Liverpool in the late 19th Century.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

The menu revolves around the food of Barsoom’s native Egypt, where she lived before emigrating to Canada in 2000.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 11, 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

She’s working on her third novel, on Malaysia, where she was born before emigrating at age 2.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 13, 2026

“These kids think everything is perfect here. What do they know about emigrating from your home and trying to manage in a new country?”

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan




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