emigrate
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The ordeal eventually led Ms. Müller to emigrate to West Berlin in 1987, a bureaucratic torment that she describes here in deliberately tedious detail, to mirror the experience.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
Given the proximity, many Cubans who do not identify with Havana's politics emigrate to the US, which is one of the reasons why Miami has such a large Cuban-American demographic.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
Many of his friends also want to emigrate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026
Economic collapse and political repression led roughly 8 million Venezuelans to emigrate since 2014, making it one of the world’s largest displacement crises.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2026
Many Jews wanted to leave Germany, but they couldn’t afford to emigrate, especially when they had large families.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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