émigré

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

An Italian émigré who left school in Scotland at age 15, he would later embark on a series of financially successful, idiosyncratic business ventures in dry cleaning, cling-film dispensers and first-aid kits.

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 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

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

In 1950 she married Yugoslav emigre doctor Milko Skofic, who became her manager.

From Reuters ● Jan. 16, 2023

On some days, they were joined by a neatly dressed Japanese emigre who lingered on the edges of the group.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand

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

They range from long-time expats to émigrés who have fast-tracked citizenship applications to new countries since the invasion began in 2022.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

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

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2024

A wedding has lured back two of the émigrés among them, but Claire, the bride-to-be, has always lived at home.

From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2024

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

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee