emigrate
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He said it has become the “last straw” for him, and he has decided to leave Venezuela and emigrate to Europe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
But a week later, it seems more like a spontaneous rush to the border more than a long-planned attempt to emigrate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
"My goal was destroyed, so I decided to emigrate," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Zemlinsky did manage to emigrate to New York but died of pneumonia in 1942 without having been able to revive his career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
I can’t marry and I can’t emigrate and the dust will eventually kill me.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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The two lose contact for 12 years after Nora’s family emigrates to the United States and reconnect after Hae-sung finds her again on Facebook.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2024
The top prize for best feature went to drama Past Lives, about childhood sweethearts in South Korea who are separated when one emigrates to the US.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2023
“No one emigrates from their country because they want to. One migrates because you have basic needs and there isn’t support in your native country,” she said, starting to cry.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2023
It also alluded to a social reality — the way kitchen houses are locked up when a family emigrates.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2022
He owns mines and prairies, and he emigrates semi-annually.
From Doctor Claudius, A True Story by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
My father emigrated from Havana as a child.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
Ma’s parents emigrated from China and eventually settled in New York.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Her three siblings have already emigrated, and she is considering shutting down her small delicatessen to follow them abroad.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Marion grew up in Stranraer in the 1960s where she fell for an older man who had emigrated from Pakistan.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
His father, who had emigrated at the turn of the century from the city of Odessa in the Ukraine, worked mainly as a trucking clerk, dispatching drivers on their routes.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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Many Britons have taken the leap by emigrating to Australia for a "better life", but one man has taken the plunge in order to build a better life back home in Wales.
From BBC ● May 17, 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
Born in Dublin in 1623, Downing spent his childhood in London before emigrating to New England with his family as part of the Puritan migration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
And he, as a young boy, was part of the avocado trade before emigrating to the United States.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2026
The same procedure can be applied to reconstruct Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, the ancestral language spoken by Austronesians after emigrating from Taiwan.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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