émigré

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In 1778 John Singleton Copley, the American émigré artist, fresh from a successful career as a colonial portraitist, turned to this scene.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

But it turns out that two other émigré composers, Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Max Steiner, who were both influenced by Mahler, created the modern symphonic film score.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2025

But the life of a political émigré, increasingly out of touch and irrelevant, was not for him.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2024

But Russian émigré journalist Arkady Ostrovsky, in his book "The Invention of Russia," explains how that Wild West atmosphere came to exist in the first place.

From Salon • Aug. 19, 2023

Fortunately the student was a recent émigré from Poland named Marie Curie.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson