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immigrate

[im-i-grayt] / ˈɪm ɪˌgreɪt /
VERB
enter a foreign area intending to live there
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"What people often forget in that discussion is that those who immigrate to Sweden also have needs when it comes to welfare, healthcare, and social care," Akesson told AFP after a press conference.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

Back in Maine, Abdi said his brother Hassan, who couldn't immigrate to the US because of visa restrictions, instead recently became a citizen of Canada.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

All of the Afghans airlifted by the U.S. to Camp As Sayliyah underwent initial security screenings and background checks for preapproval to immigrate to the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

“I couldn’t have sold that 1st taco if my parents didn’t make the difficult decision to leave their homeland for a better life & immigrate to the U.S.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026

The American president, J « Harry Truman, had petitioned Congress to allow tens of thousands of concentration camp survivors to immigrate to the United States.

From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren

A Central or South American who immigrates to the U.S. could see their greenhouse gas emissions double or triple, just by becoming part of the U.S. economy.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 25, 2023

Her 2013 debut novel, “We Need New Names,” was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for its indelible tale of a Zimbabwean girl who immigrates to the United States.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2022

Beauty and the Beast is about an Asian family that immigrates to France and they're trying to make a business, even though there's quite a bit of racism against them there.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2021

Talusan’s debut memoir follows a young boy from the Philippines who immigrates to America, where she becomes a woman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2021

A person emigrates from the land he leaves, and immigrates to the land where he takes up his abode.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

Mejia said she and her father immigrated to the U.S. from El Salvador in 1985, before TPS existed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Lee: “Star Wars” was the very first movie I ever saw in my life as a 4-year-old when I immigrated here from Korea.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Sharma is the second of five children born to parents who immigrated to Racine, Wis., from New Zealand, to join her aunt, whose husband owned a metal fabrication company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

One academic who immigrated to the United States said junk mail from the retailer helped convince her that she’d really become an American.

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026

This time when he tried to cross, his shoe grazed the wire and he plummeted to the ground, and that was how my father immigrated to Holland.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

The tech-firm founder on immigrating to Canada, his tireless parents and the first startup that made him millions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Al Lenza’s parents traveled overseas three times after immigrating to the U.S. in 1961.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

It was trying to unravel years of sacrifice that the couple had made since immigrating to the United States from El Salvador.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026

Rothman’s family fled Romanian pogroms against Jewish people at the turn of the 20th century, immigrating to Philadelphia, according to Magda Peck, a cousin of Rothman’s mother.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025

After immigrating to the United States three years ago, Uncle Amin hadn’t passed the medical board exams needed to practice as a doctor.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai




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