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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

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

Talented young Hungarians continued to emigrate to Western Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

"If I don't find a job here, I'll have to emigrate again. We have no choice. We can't starve," he added.

From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 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

On that February afternoon, Moshfegh, a self-described workaholic, reported she was already halfway through her next novel, about a woman who emigrates from China to San Francisco in the early 1900s.

From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2020

At the best, he emigrates to Europe, and his achievement is credited to that continent.

From Appearances Being Notes of Travel by G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) Dickinson

His family emigrated to Peru in 2014 to escape the crisis roiling their homeland.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

The writer Stefan Zweig, who had emigrated to England from Austria in 1934 after a police raid, returned to warn his Jewish friends three years later.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

In line for selection was Basil D'Oliveira, a mixed-race all-rounder born in South Africa, who had emigrated to and qualified to play for England.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

When the family had emigrated to America, they’d claimed her as a daughter to get her into the country.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Omar’s family was granted asylum in the United States in 1995, having spent years in Kenyan refugee camps after emigrating from Somalia due to the country’s civil war.

From Slate ● Oct. 13, 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

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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