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emigrate

[em-i-grayt] / ˈɛm ɪˌgreɪt /
VERB
move to new country
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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

According to a recent survey by the ONDH, 74 percent of 500 young people living near the border said they followed accounts or content related to preparing to emigrate.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

Deteriorating conditions are driving thousands of young people to emigrate to Brazil and Uruguay, said Everleny.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

"My goal was destroyed, so I decided to emigrate," he said.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

The U.N. had made it easy to emigrate, difficult if not impossible to stay.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

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

But lest we think child migration is new, there’s Ruth Behar’s young adult novel “Letters From Cuba,” about a girl who emigrates solo from Poland to Cuba during World War II.

From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2021

The hero, a young English lad after rather a stormy boyhood, emigrates to Australia, and gets employment as an officer in the mounted police.

From Corporal 'Lige's Recruit A Story of Crown Point and Ticonderoga by James Otis

My great grandfather emigrated from Ireland to Canada in 1923 for some of the same reasons and ideals that Mr. Baker’s ancestors emigrated to the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

The writer Stefan Zweig, who had emigrated to England from Austria in 1934 after a police raid, returned to warn his Jewish friends three years later.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 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

And everybody who emigrated turns out to be special.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

In their last conversation, he suggested emigrating to Hawaii where he believed mixed-race marriages were more acceptable.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

That simple, honorable point about the dignity of emigrating remains painfully controversial in Dean’s home country and here.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

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

And he, as a young boy, was part of the avocado trade before emigrating to the United States.

From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2026

Adnan had done well since emigrating over a decade earlier; he owned and managed four Subway franchises in New Orleans.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers


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