as in immigrant
one that leaves one place to settle in another
a city with emigrants from many lands
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Recent Examples of emigrant
Grooming the Irish far right For centuries, Irish people have left their island, spreading out as emigrants all over the world.
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Dominique Soguel, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2025
An article in The Guardian in May 2025 reported that a record number of emigrants left New Zealand in 2023 and 2024.
—Alex Ledsom, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
The real answer involves less lore and more limestone, but the monument’s recent history is pretty interesting too: The towering formations have been important markers for both Native cultures and Western emigrants.
—Brian Higgins, Outside Online, 20 May 2025
Nevertheless, the most brilliant emigrants won’t be persuaded to return solely on the basis of financial incentives.
—Edoardo Campanella, Foreign Affairs, 16 Oct. 2014
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Dominique Soguel, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2025
An article in The Guardian in May 2025 reported that a record number of emigrants left New Zealand in 2023 and 2024.
—Alex Ledsom, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
The real answer involves less lore and more limestone, but the monument’s recent history is pretty interesting too: The towering formations have been important markers for both Native cultures and Western emigrants.
—Brian Higgins, Outside Online, 20 May 2025
Nevertheless, the most brilliant emigrants won’t be persuaded to return solely on the basis of financial incentives.
—Edoardo Campanella, Foreign Affairs, 16 Oct. 2014
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for emigrant
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By the early 20th century, Japanese immigrants opened restaurants, beauty salons, grocery stores, hotels, and other businesses in lower downtown Denver.—
Jessica Alvarado Gamez,
Denver Post,
27 Jan. 2026
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The National Immigration Law Center fights in courts and legislatures to protect low-income immigrants, ensuring that civil rights don’t disappear simply because of where someone was born.—
Dev Patnaik,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Sandweg also said the Border Patrol has no business operating in a city like Minneapolis because their training is geared more toward encountering drug cartels and migrants along the border.—
Anna Schecter,
CBS News,
28 Jan. 2026
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Spain plans to grant 500,000 undocumented migrants legal status, bucking a trend among many Western nations that are cracking down on immigration.—
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28 Jan. 2026
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What settler stole this sacred land and is now charging me for these healing waters?—
Gaby Iori
January 27,
Literary Hub,
27 Jan. 2026
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And so Heyerdahl recast the island’s earliest settlers as members of a Caucasian race who had migrated from what is now Iraq or Turkey to the Americas and then across the Pacific, and who were tall, fair, blue-eyed, and bearded—not unlike Heyerdahl himself, as Pitts wryly observes.—
Margaret Talbot,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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Lots of small, family-owned and run Vietnamese and Vietnamese-Chinese refugee businesses there, alongside a long-standing Greek restaurant and a German restaurant with an urban legend about being haunted, and now, some Latinx businesses, a Jamaican restaurant, a Somali restaurant.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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Turkish officials have expressed concern that intervention in Iran could spark instability or trigger a refugee influx.—
Jon Gambrell,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Emigrant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emigrant. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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