as in migrant
one that leaves one place to settle in another
America was founded by immigrants and they have been its lifeblood ever since
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Recent Examples of immigrant
Albert Sun,
New York Times,
2 July 2026
Instead, immigrants go there to check in with authorities and process paperwork.
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Vera Lucia Pappaterra,
Miami Herald,
2 July 2026
Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
2 July 2026
Experts say deporting Haitian TPS recipients will have a catastrophic impact on the nationwide healthcare workforce crisis — a workforce that is hugely dependent on immigrant labor.
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Vanessa Romo,
NPR,
2 July 2026
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Noun
Children of immigrants replaced immigrants, blending into American society while retaining their own cultural traditions.
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Albert Sun,
New York Times,
2 July 2026
Instead, immigrants go there to check in with authorities and process paperwork.
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Vera Lucia Pappaterra,
Miami Herald,
2 July 2026
Adjective
The play, written and performed by Osorio, focuses on a man returning to his Georgia hometown, a once-thriving community that is now financially dependent for survival on a massive immigrant detention center.
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Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
2 July 2026
Experts say deporting Haitian TPS recipients will have a catastrophic impact on the nationwide healthcare workforce crisis — a workforce that is hugely dependent on immigrant labor.
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Vanessa Romo,
NPR,
2 July 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for immigrant
Noun
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But one video posted to social media that appears to show a young man wielding a machete and counting down to the deadline has put migrants like Nyirenda on edge.
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Raseman had first learned about the family through a network of churches helping migrants in the Chicago area.
Adjective
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The Stoli Group is run by Russian expatriate billionaire Yuri Shefler, who also lives in Switzerland.
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One looks to the story of the Haitian World Cup team, appearing in the tournament for the first time in fifty years, which has gathered expatriate players from the Haitian diaspora to play for that beautiful and utterly despoiled country, where many of them have never lived.
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The book looked at the world of a swath of Irish women emigrants who were deemed troublemakers, highlighting that for a period of time, Irish women outnumbered Irish men in prison.
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Perhaps as important as Morocco’s investment in nurturing domestic talent has been its improved efforts to scout and court eligible international talent —often the descendants of emigrants who have learned the game in world-class competitive environs elsewhere.
Adjective
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There’s no guarantee Lawrence will ever play host to a foreign national soccer team’s World Cup base camp again.
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Test your news knowledge with this week's Fox News Digital News Quiz, featuring a primary upset in Colorado, while police identify the Empire State Building climbers as foreign daredevils.
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But that friendship was betrayed as settlers dried up the Gila with upstream dams and diversions.
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Some people, including descendents of long-ago English, Welsh and Scotch-Irish settlers, now identify themselves simply as American.
Adjective
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In the past, it's been falsely linked with everything from hurricanes to floods, wildfires and alien abductions.
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Inspired by the alien invasion genre and slacker hang out movies, the film is about a group of friends standing up against an alien invasion that threatens to swallow the whole world.
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Court bars asylum claims before refugees enter US Alito wrote another decision June 25 for a 6-3 majority that allowed the administration to turn back refugees at the border.
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Cathryn Miller-Wilson is executive director of HIAS Pennsylvania, a refugee agency that serves about 6,000 clients a year.
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“Immigrant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immigrant. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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