as in to migrate
to leave a country or region to live elsewhere
—often + from
My grandparents emigrated from Hungary.
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Recent Examples of emigrate
Hotel Marcel, Connecticut, USA The Oscar-tipped film The Brutalist is said to be based on the life of Hungarian-German architect Marcel Breuer, who emigrated to America and designed over 100 buildings in his lifetime.
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Kissa Castaneda, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Caro emigrated from Colombia to Hartford, Connecticut, in 1981 and shortly afterward met his wife, Amparo, a native of Medellin, Colombia.
—Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025
But Brody gave both a physical and emotional performance as a Hungarian Jew who emigrates and gets caught up in the web of the American dream and a nightmare project overseen by a creepy American entrepreneur.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025
To emigrate from Germany, the Weber children had to be declared orphans – an arrangement their father agreed to in hopes his kids could live a better life in the United States.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 24 Feb. 2025
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Kissa Castaneda, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Caro emigrated from Colombia to Hartford, Connecticut, in 1981 and shortly afterward met his wife, Amparo, a native of Medellin, Colombia.
—Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025
But Brody gave both a physical and emotional performance as a Hungarian Jew who emigrates and gets caught up in the web of the American dream and a nightmare project overseen by a creepy American entrepreneur.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025
To emigrate from Germany, the Weber children had to be declared orphans – an arrangement their father agreed to in hopes his kids could live a better life in the United States.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 24 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for emigrate
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In west Africa this causes the inter-tropical convergence zone—where moist air from the south meets dry air from the north—to migrate from the Sahel towards the Gulf of Guinea.—
Christophe Lavaysse,
JSTOR Daily,
17 Apr. 2025
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But last month, Huang signaled that his company was preparing to migrate more manufacturing to the US when tech companies, including OpenAI, are buying hundreds of thousands of enterprise-grade GPUs from Nvidia.—
Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
14 Apr. 2025
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Boca Raton parks and recreation officials are looking to improve and update the city’s parks by analyzing the existing parks to determine what changes are needed the most and where to relocate some of the city’s current facilities.—
South Florida Sun Sentinel,
Sun Sentinel,
22 Apr. 2025
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The couple relocated to the Eastern Shore two years ago.—
Todd Karpovich,
Baltimore Sun,
22 Apr. 2025
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During a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in February, Trump floated the idea of the U.S. taking over Gaza and resettling Palestinians elsewhere.—
Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA Today,
8 Apr. 2025
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As the ability to treat initial, or primary, tumors has improved, people survive early rounds with cancer only to come back years or decades later when the cancer has somehow resettled in a new tissue, such as brain, lung or bone.—
Amber Dance,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 Apr. 2025
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Our reporters talk to each other and move around candidates from one category to another.—
Alexandra York,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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The bill also included moving $1.1 million from the Constitutional Defense Fund into the Legislative Legal Defense Fund.—
Alex Brizee,
Idaho Statesman,
15 Apr. 2025
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Hong Kong investors bailed him out in exchange for 70% of the property.—
Dan Alexander,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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People who can’t afford to buy flood insurance should not be allowed to build there — then wait for FEMA to bail them out.—
Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 Apr. 2025
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“Emigrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emigrate. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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