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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

“While foreigners who wish to immigrate lawfully must sometimes wait for many years, a child born here to a birth tourist is automatically a citizen,” Alito wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 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

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

After 11-year-old Nora immigrates from Korea to Canada, Hae-sung finds her on Facebook 12 years later.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2023

Now, the likelihood of a child or teenager who immigrates to the United States “seeing themselves on the page is higher because of my work than it was for me,” he said.

From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2022

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

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

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

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

Born in Bulgaria to Armenian parents who survived the genocide, he immigrated to the U.S. in 1961 and studied at Columbia University, earning advanced degrees in nuclear engineering and nuclear physics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 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

I wish my essay could have been about the most significant event in my life; how my family immigrated to America.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

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

After immigrating to America, my dad was so grateful to be American he enlisted in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

He spent time in the Middle East when his father was ambassador to Syria and Lebanon before immigrating to the San Francisco Bay Area with his family as a teenager.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 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

My first poem was titled “The American Dream,” a tale of a woman immigrating to this country—“the land of unlimited opportunity”—and barely being able to feed her family.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers


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