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also emigrés
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as in immigrants
one that leaves one place to settle in another
the émigrés moved to many different nations
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Recent Examples of émigrés
Over the summer, Jewish Federation of Greater Washington CEO Gil Preuss accompanied a group of over 100 such emigres from Paris to Israel.
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Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 7 Oct. 2025
Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 7 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for émigrés
Noun
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Those wars have also sent a whole generation of refugees fleeing those conflicts to this area, including Afghans in Vista and Iraqis in El Cajon.—
Ibrahim Al-Marashi,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Mar. 2026
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First, one of the strongest predictors of whether people helped refugees was having parents or grandparents who had done so during previous episodes of violence in their country.—
Catherine A. Sanderson,
The Conversation,
3 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Estrada Juarez is among many immigrants arrested for deportation at courthouses since last year, a practice that breaks from longstanding former procedure.—
Andrea Castillo,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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The loneliness, disconnection and yearning embedded in his persona struck a chord with fans, many of whom, like Junior himself, were immigrants in the United States who felt the same.—
Isabela Raygoza,
Billboard,
5 Mar. 2026
Noun
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What is really happening in South Africa with migrants coming here in search of a better life?—
Thinus Ferreira,
Variety,
6 Mar. 2026
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This includes some of the millions of inadmissible migrants released at the border under Biden, like Karan Singh.—
Simon Hankinson,
Boston Herald,
6 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Saw Wee Kee, Waa Kee Sha and their surrounding areas have long been more than just recreation sites, and have rich histories extending back well before the earliest American settlers first arrived, the release said.—
Aurora Beacon-News,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Mar. 2026
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Early Spanish settlers called this fish grunion, which means grunter.—
Laylan Connelly,
Oc Register,
4 Mar. 2026
Noun
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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
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“émigrés.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/%C3%A9migr%C3%A9s. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
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