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emigrant

[em-i-gruhnt] / ˈɛm ɪ grənt /


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The emigrant ship is one of many familiar images from Irish history that surface throughout Ms. O’Farrell’s saga, which largely spans the period from 1865 to after the Irish Civil War.

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 2026

His wife Heidi Goodwin and her family have been Nature Friends regulars since the early 1960s, when their German emigrant father Benno Werstein joined.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 22, 2025

I’m a Russian emigrant journalist and former political activist.

From Slate Oct. 18, 2025

By then, Liverpool emigrant Ron Harper was renowned on the Sydney music scene as both a piano tuner and a performer.

From BBC Jun. 21, 2025

How strange that the emigrant villagers are shouters, hollering face to face.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

González has witnessed the ties between Mexico and its emigrants abroad evolve over four decades, starting as a young consular officer in the administration of Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 11, 2026

Havana announced this week that it would allow Cuban emigrants to invest to address the communist island's severe economic and energy crises.

From Barron's Mar. 21, 2026

Are the new American emigrants a credit to the strength of their homeland’s economy?

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 26, 2026

Remarkably, there is little to no accurate real-time data about the number of actual emigrants.

From MarketWatch Oct. 18, 2025

So far away from home, the emigrants called themselves jahajiihhai—ship brothers.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson




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