- present participle of emigrate.
emigrating
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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 70-year-old plays up her personal story as the daughter of Jewish parents who she says "barely survived" the Holocaust before emigrating to Costa Rica.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 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
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
Adnan had done well since emigrating over a decade earlier; he owned and managed four Subway franchises in New Orleans.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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