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
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
Memories are still acute of a record 130,000 percent year-on-year rise in prices recorded in 2018, the peak of the hyperinflationary period, which pushed millions to emigrate.
From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026
Their parents, like mine, had not had the courage to sell everything and emigrate while there was still time.
From "Night" by Elie Wiesel
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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
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
He emigrates southward, he obtains property, according to local law, in a slave.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 by Various
His parents emigrated to the U.S. in 1962 after fleeing mainland China for Taiwan during the Communist revolution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
My mother was born to parents who emigrated in the 1950s during Batista’s regime.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
In line for selection was Basil D'Oliveira, a mixed-race all-rounder born in South Africa, who had emigrated to and qualified to play for England.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 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
After the war, Alfons Heck emigrated to the United States and became an American citizen.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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Omar’s family was granted asylum in the United States in 1995, having spent years in Kenyan refugee camps after emigrating from Somalia due to the country’s civil war.
From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2026
In their last conversation, he suggested emigrating to Hawaii where he believed mixed-race marriages were more acceptable.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
Alex Golesh only discovered the game after emigrating to the U.S. from the Soviet Union.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The 70-year-old plays up her personal story as the daughter of Jewish parents who she says "barely survived" the Holocaust before emigrating to Costa Rica.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 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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