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immigrate

[im-i-grayt] / ˈɪm ɪˌgreɪt /
VERB
enter a foreign area intending to live there
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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

The SVP has brushed aside such concerns, pointing out that its proposal includes quotas allowing for around 40,000 people to immigrate to the country each year.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 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

Then, you’ll need to discuss what this will actually cost and what kind of visa you’ll need to immigrate.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 22, 2025

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

Khalifa, who immigrates to Mombasa, Kenya, promises Ilyas he will care for Afiya.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2022

Directed by Danish filmmaker Bille August, who also worked on the screenplay, it starred Max von Sydow as an out-of-work Swede who immigrates to Denmark with his son, in search of a better life.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2020

She survives, thanks to the unsettling help of a zealous U.S. missionary, and immigrates to Hawaii.

From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2016

Imm′igrant, one who immigrates; Immigrā′tion, act of immigrating.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

The couple both immigrated to the U.S. in the shadow of the country’s one-child policy, a population suppression initiative.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Mullin said federal officials are investigating her past marriage as well as how her family immigrated to the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

My own family legally immigrated to the U.S. from Soviet Belarus in the early 1990s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

More fled with the advent of Soviet communism, while others fortunate enough to escape Germany’s Nazi death machine also immigrated here.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Most of them were young, the sons and daughters of the first wave of Puerto Ricans who immigrated to El Barrio in the late forties and the fifties.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez

Yong-ho Kim started working in Radio Korea’s advertising department a month after immigrating to the United States in February 1990, two years before the unrest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

Yet, in the late 19th century, the number of Catholics immigrating to the U.S. surged.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

In 1941, they were released and headed to Cuba, where they lived for two years before immigrating to New York.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025

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

Coach Korfanty had had an illustrious fencing career in his native Poland before immigrating to the United States and starting a career in coaching in Portland, Oregon.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad


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