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
Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 10 Feb. 2026
East Palo Alto is a largely working-class city with many residents from immigrant and minority backgrounds.
—Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026
Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
Top CEOs have aligned themselves with a xenophobic White House while relying heavily on an immigrant workforce.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
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Noun
This community was built by hardworking immigrants just like them.
—Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 10 Feb. 2026
East Palo Alto is a largely working-class city with many residents from immigrant and minority backgrounds.
—Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026
Adjective
Hundreds of businesses in Chicago, notably in immigrant neighborhoods, are still trying to recover from a downturn in sales after being hit from all sides by intense immigration enforcement activity that swept the city in recent months.
—Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
Top CEOs have aligned themselves with a xenophobic White House while relying heavily on an immigrant workforce.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for immigrant
Noun
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That easy access to the United States also has made Juarez, like other border cities, attractive to Mexico’s drug cartels seeking to safeguard their smuggling routes for drugs and migrants headed north and cash and guns moving to the south.—
Darlene Superville,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Feb. 2026
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Since last spring, some migrants with active immigration cases have been picked up by ICE agents during routine check-ins at immigration court.—
Ken Molestina,
CBS News,
11 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The film is also charting strongly in parts of the Middle East, where India-Pakistan political sensitivities can make theatrical releases for this kind of material complicated or commercially risky – leaving streaming as the cleaner route to audiences in expatriate-heavy territories.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
7 Feb. 2026
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However, an informal, expatriate group of academics and professionals told TIME on Sunday that, per their calculations, protester deaths could have reached 6,000 through Saturday.—
Richard Hall,
Time,
14 Jan. 2026
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The city’s Hadhramis are descendants of the emigrants from Yemen’s Hadhramout region who began settling in Johor in the 1800s.—
Jeff Chu,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Feb. 2026
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Malinin is the son of two former Olympic skaters, Tatiana Malinina and Roman Skorniakov, Russian emigrants who competed for Uzbekistan but came to Virginia in 1998.—
Sally Jenkins,
The Atlantic,
1 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Unlike in previous crises, Cuba’s regime lacks foreign partners that can step in to help, according to Robert Munks, head of Americas research at risk intelligence company Verisk Maplecroft.—
Sam Meredith,
CNBC,
14 Feb. 2026
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The center said most of the suspects were Syrian or Iraqi, though there were other foreign nationals from Europe as well as Australia, Canada and the United States, among other countries.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Feb. 2026
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The horror-Western follows a settler family on a perilous journey across the Kalahari Desert in the mid-1800s.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
10 Feb. 2026
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But new research published Sunday in the journal suggests these settlers formed seafaring communities that existed for at least as long as the area’s polynya—a technical name for unfrozen water amid sea ice—indicating that humans have long had a hand in shaping the dynamic Arctic ecosystem.—
K. R. Callaway,
Scientific American,
9 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The Super Bowl trailer confirms puppeteer James Ortiz is the voice behind Rocky, a spider-like alien creature whose galaxy’s sun is also dying from this same unknown substance.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Feb. 2026
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The spot humorously centered on onboarding an alien monster, poking fun at HR challenges, and the promise of AI automation.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Feb. 2026
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In Oklahoma, Pastor Hau Suan Khai started hearing about cancellations from Christian refugees who, like him, had come to the US fleeing persecution in Myanmar.—
Catherine E. Shoichet,
CNN Money,
12 Feb. 2026
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Simpson, 45, is a New Orleans native who fled to Oklahoma as a Hurricane Katrina refugee in 2005.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
12 Feb. 2026
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“Immigrant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immigrant. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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