emigre

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

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

The black-and-white piece uses a QR code to offer visitors an individual chronology through 26 individually labeled steps of life in the United States as an Iranian emigre.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2022

Many of the American and European emigre scientists who developed the first nuclear weapons were profoundly distressed about the demon they had let loose on the world.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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 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

The Grunwald Center was established by German émigré Fred Grunwald in 1956 with an eye toward being a resource for students and for research.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2023

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

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

Or do these émigrés personify a loss of faith in America’s future and way of life?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 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

The arrest of Mr. Gershkovich, the American-born son of Soviet émigrés and a reporter for The Journal since January 2022, brought relations between the United States and Russia to a new low.

From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2023

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

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee