variants also emigré

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Recent Examples of émigré With the Greeks being the largest Orthodox emigre community in the United States, Elpidophoros presides over one of the largest Orthodox parishes in the country. Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 24 Mar. 2025 Lillian Feldman was born to impecunious Jewish emigres in Cincinnati on July 13, 1927, the twelfth of thirteen children who were encouraged by their mother to draw on the walls. News Desk, Artforum, 17 Oct. 2024 Some emigres have managed to keep their jobs in Israel, working remotely as digital nomads. Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2024 With the Greeks being the largest Orthodox emigre community in the United States, Elpidophoros presides over one of the largest Orthodox parishes in the country. Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 24 Mar. 2025 Some emigres have managed to keep their jobs in Israel, working remotely as digital nomads. Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2024 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for émigré
Noun
  • Hundreds of Vietnamese refugees from San Diego and Orange counties attended the ceremony, and many were joined by their children, grandchildren and even great-grandchildren.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2025
  • What might destroy our society is not immigrants or refugees or Palestinians or women seeking abortions or trans people or any of the other assorted others that have been posited as undermining American society.
    Viet Thanh Nguyễn, Time, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Governor Ron DeSantis recently endorsed child labor as a fix for worker shortages caused by mass deportations and by a new state law criminalizing undocumented immigrants.
    E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Pope Francis will be remembered for spearheading outreach to women, immigrants and refugees, LGBTQ people, and people from other faiths.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Despite border crossings being down, Trump invoked the 1798 wartime Alien Enemies Act to deport hundreds of Venezuelan migrants his administration alleged to be gang members, affording them little to no due process.
    Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 29 Apr. 2025
  • For instance, 17 people were charged in 2024 for taking part in protests or demonstrations in support of irregular migrants, without apparently having any direct contact with them.
    Frey Lindsay, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • My life is still at the mercy of the settlers and the occupation.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The district and town are named for the Massapequa Tribe that lived on Long Island before European settlers arrived in the 1600s.
    Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Read: Hong Kong is self-destructing Since 2019, more than 5,000 emigrants have moved to the South London borough of Sutton, where a local group organized a camp in 2023 to educate children of the Hong Kong diaspora about Chinese repression.
    Cora Engelbrecht, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2025
  • 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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“émigré.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/%C3%A9migr%C3%A9. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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