emigrate
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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
Albania has been in a demographic crisis for decades, as people emigrate abroad in search of better work prospects.
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
Talented young Hungarians continued to emigrate to Western Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
Given the proximity, many Cubans who do not identify with Havana's politics emigrate to the US, which is one of the reasons why Miami has such a large Cuban-American demographic.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
It wasn’t by choice, and he wasn’t alone: massive unemployment in Italy had pushed many Italians to emigrate.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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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
“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
Dr Black said contracts are being handed back because there are serious difficulties in finding a replacement when a doctor "retires or emigrates, or resigns".
From BBC ● May 29, 2023
On that February afternoon, Moshfegh, a self-described workaholic, reported she was already halfway through her next novel, about a woman who emigrates from China to San Francisco in the early 1900s.
From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2020
Generally within a week, and always within a fortnight, he emigrates alone, taking all his wife's money with him and leaving her to work for her own living with her parents.
From The Children of the King by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
A Muslim whose parents emigrated from Egypt, he graduated from the University of Michigan, where he was on the lacrosse team.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Rubio was born in Miami on May 28, 1971, to Cuban parents who had emigrated 15 years earlier to escape poverty.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Born in 1947 in Northern Ireland, Neill emigrated to New Zealand at the age of 7.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
My love for the Fourth comes from my grandfather, who emigrated to this country from Lebanon.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
In 1952, Karl-Heinz Schnibbe emigrated to the United States, where he lives in Utah.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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The menu revolves around the food of Barsoom’s native Egypt, where she lived before emigrating to Canada in 2000.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 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
And he, as a young boy, was part of the avocado trade before emigrating to the United States.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2026
On the upper deck he mixed with the wealthy travellers, lower down he encountered the Poms emigrating to a new life down under.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025
European herders and farmers emigrating to other continents have also made serious efforts to domesticate some local species.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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