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also emigré
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as in immigrant
one that leaves one place to settle in another
the émigrés moved to many different nations
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Recent Examples of émigré
Some emigres have managed to keep their jobs in Israel, working remotely as digital nomads.
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Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2024
By May, however, the Russian security services had begun to visit families of emigres to pressure them to convince their relatives to return to Russia.
—Irina Borogan, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2022
The son of Soviet emigres who settled in New Jersey, Gershkovich moved to Russia in 2017 to work for The Moscow Times newspaper before being hired by the Journal in 2022.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
The son of Soviet emigres who settled in New Jersey, Mr. Gershkovich was fluent in Russian and moved to the country in 2017 to work for The Moscow Times newspaper before being hired by the Journal in 2022.
—Kirill Zarubin, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 July 2024
Lincoln settled for a compromise authorizing private financing that still provided impoverished emigres with money to cross the ocean.
—Harold Holzer, New York Daily News, 4 July 2024
Any attempt to reconstruct a national Ukrainian narrative must take a stand on a trauma of such proportions–especially since all Soviet historians, propagandists, and officials assiduously ignored the famine or dismissed it as an emigre delusion for decades.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 23 Feb. 2024
The son of Soviet emigres who settled in New Jersey, Gershkovich was fluent in Russian and moved to the country in 2017 to work for The Moscow Times newspaper before being hired by the Journal in 2022.
—CBS News, 13 June 2024
Most were emigres from Texas who brought their politics to El Monte.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2024
By May, however, the Russian security services had begun to visit families of emigres to pressure them to convince their relatives to return to Russia.
—Irina Borogan, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2022
The son of Soviet emigres who settled in New Jersey, Gershkovich moved to Russia in 2017 to work for The Moscow Times newspaper before being hired by the Journal in 2022.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
The son of Soviet emigres who settled in New Jersey, Mr. Gershkovich was fluent in Russian and moved to the country in 2017 to work for The Moscow Times newspaper before being hired by the Journal in 2022.
—Kirill Zarubin, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 July 2024
Lincoln settled for a compromise authorizing private financing that still provided impoverished emigres with money to cross the ocean.
—Harold Holzer, New York Daily News, 4 July 2024
Any attempt to reconstruct a national Ukrainian narrative must take a stand on a trauma of such proportions–especially since all Soviet historians, propagandists, and officials assiduously ignored the famine or dismissed it as an emigre delusion for decades.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 23 Feb. 2024
The son of Soviet emigres who settled in New Jersey, Gershkovich was fluent in Russian and moved to the country in 2017 to work for The Moscow Times newspaper before being hired by the Journal in 2022.
—CBS News, 13 June 2024
Most were emigres from Texas who brought their politics to El Monte.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for émigré
Noun
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The plight of Palestinian refugees offers a cautionary tale.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
3 Feb. 2025
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Funding for United Nations agencies, including peacekeeping, human rights and refugee agencies, have been traditional targets for Republican administrations to cut.—
Ellen Knickmeyer and Meg Kinnard,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Feb. 2025
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His parents, immigrants from Argentina, moved from Eagle Rock to Altadena in the 1970s after finding a home large enough for them and their seven children.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2025
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Agents took the names of everyone in the apartment and took at least one person, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic, into custody, Gonzalez, 38, said.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
28 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Invoking the act would let soldiers arrest migrants – something soldiers are currently forbidden from doing.—
Tom Vanden Brook,
USA TODAY,
4 Feb. 2025
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In Spring, a brutal Immigration Removal Centre is described in distressing detail—but Smith also imagines a kind of underground railroad for migrants anxious to avoid the authorities.—
Adam Begley,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Due to a lack of hedgehogs, the settlers began using another hibernating mammal: the groundhog.—
Julia Gomez,
USA TODAY,
31 Jan. 2025
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Violence has grown in the West Bank; settlers are out of control, even as President Donald Trump has lifted sanctions on them; and there is more talk of annexation of the West Bank by Israel, which would most likely mean denying Palestinians democratic rights.—
Nicholas Kristof,
The Mercury News,
28 Jan. 2025
Noun
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In the massacre, settlers of the LDS Church involved in a territorial militia killed 120 American western emigrants.—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA TODAY,
28 Jan. 2025
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When a wagon train of emigrants traveling from Arkansas to California passed through the area, Mormon militiamen surrounded the group and brutally slaughtered more than 100 men, women, and children.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes,
11 Jan. 2025
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“émigré.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/%C3%A9migr%C3%A9. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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