emigrate
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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
She doesn't want to emigrate like the millions who have fled Venezuela's economic crisis but longs for political and economic reform, saying everything is "too expensive", education is a "privilege", and non-exploitative jobs are rare.
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026
Memories are still acute of a record 130,000 percent year-on-year rise in prices recorded in 2018, the peak of the hyperinflationary period, which pushed millions to emigrate.
From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026
Many of his friends also want to emigrate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026
They were predestined to emigrate to the tropics, to be miners and acetate silk spinners and steel workers.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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