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émigré

[em-i-gray, ay-mee-gray] / ˈɛm ɪˌgreɪ, eɪ miˈgreɪ /


emigre


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Like Xu, the sanctioned developer of the Phnom Penh skyscraper, Chen was an émigré from China and a naturalized Cambodian citizen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

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

Szalay's sixth novel tells the tortured story of a Hungarian emigre who makes and loses a fortune and moves to London before returning to his home country.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2025

The Central Intelligence Agency’s Manhattan-based “book club” office was run by an emigre from Romania named George Midden, who managed to send 10 million books behind the Iron Curtain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2025

He once told an interviewer he considered himself French rather than an emigre.

From Reuters ● Jul. 12, 2023

Frank Marshall, one of Morphy’s great successors and the reigning U.S. champ for decades, tied for first at the 1923 event, but his co-winner, Belarus-born emigre Abraham Kupchik, deserves to be better known.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 11, 2023

“You know what that means?” he told Edward Teller, a fellow Hungarian emigre.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

I was born in the United States, but my parents are Soviet émigrés and I grew up bilingual.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Learning Portuguese has often been a struggle for Cuban émigrés.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Salome Zourabichvili was born in France in 1952 into a prominent family of Georgian émigrés.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2024

There have been many films about émigrés, in genres ranging from comedies to dramas to documentaries ever since Charlie Chaplin's 1917 short, "The Immigrant."

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2023

In time, these émigrés to the new continent would redraw its maps.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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