émigré
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In 1778 John Singleton Copley, the American émigré artist, fresh from a successful career as a colonial portraitist, turned to this scene.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025
But the life of a political émigré, increasingly out of touch and irrelevant, was not for him.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2024
But Russian émigré journalist Arkady Ostrovsky, in his book "The Invention of Russia," explains how that Wild West atmosphere came to exist in the first place.
From Salon • Aug. 19, 2023
While he was at Harvard, the teaching of architectural history was practically banned by modernists, including the émigré professor Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus school.
From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2023
Fortunately the student was a recent émigré from Poland named Marie Curie.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing émigré
The French Revolution
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Chapters 22–23
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