émigré
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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
Most are fleeing in panic after seeing their profession criminalized, leaving Moscow with whatever they can panic-pack into a couple of bags and joining the mushrooming emigre communities in Istanbul; Yerevan, Armenia; and Riga.
From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2022
On October 21 Briggs presided over the so-called Uranium Committee’s first meeting, with Szilard, Teller, and Eugene Wigner, another emigre Hungarian physicist, on hand as technical advisors.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Chapters 22–23
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