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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
Reuters, NBC news, 1 May 2025
Children of immigrants attend local schools, and their parents work in every sector of the economy, including restaurants, transportation, construction, farming and ranching, hotels, resorts and hospitals.
—Benjamin Waddell, Denver Post, 22 Apr. 2025
Several have lived in Midtown hotels that the city uses to house immigrants.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 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
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Noun
Detainees at the Bluebonnet immigrant detention center in the small city of Anson, Texas, sent the outside world a message this week: S-O-S.
With a Reuters drone flying nearby, 31 men formed the letters in the dirt yard of the facility on Monday.
—Reuters, NBC news, 1 May 2025
Children of immigrants attend local schools, and their parents work in every sector of the economy, including restaurants, transportation, construction, farming and ranching, hotels, resorts and hospitals.
—Benjamin Waddell, Denver Post, 22 Apr. 2025
Several have lived in Midtown hotels that the city uses to house immigrants.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for immigrant
Noun
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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
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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
Adjective
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The recent release of the IPU serves as a warning that IRS audits of expatriate tax returns claiming CTC and ACTC are likely to increase.—
Virginia La Torre Jeker, J.D.,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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Wiley, especially, emphasized the expatriate community her shop serves with its array of European chocolates, cheeses and candies and other foods.—
Jonathan Shorman,
Kansas City Star,
11 Apr. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
Adjective
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And as a result of the party’s control over information, particularly regarding foreign affairs, any encounter with the Trump administration can be framed domestically as Xi standing firm against foreign bullying.—
Zongyuan Zoe Liu,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Apr. 2025
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Tariffs would hinder foreign producers and boost domestic manufacturers, reinvigorating regions left behind as the sector's jobs moved overseas, Trump said.—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
29 Apr. 2025
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Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, a Black man known as the city’s first non-native settler, sold his properties in Chicago.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
7 May 2025
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In the 18th century, the Boston Tea Party helped tip the nation permanently toward coffee, and Scotch-Irish settlers kick-started American potato growing in New Hampshire.—
Yasmin Tayag,
The Atlantic,
5 May 2025
Adjective
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Wallace played Mary, the mother of Barrymore’s Gertie, Robert MacNaughton’s Michael and Henry Thomas’s Elliott, who finds the alien E.T. and protects him in their home.—
Victoria Edel,
People.com,
2 May 2025
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Possessing no eyes, no mouth and no face, with an almost alien lurching gait, that nightmarish figure will reappear every so often, its return always upsetting and unexplained.—
Tim Grierson,
Los Angeles Times,
2 May 2025
Noun
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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
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Israeli officials have rejected that definition, arguing that descendants don’t qualify as refugees and thus don’t have the right to return to their ancestral homes in what is now Israel.—
Eugenia Yosef and Oren Liebermann,
CNN Money,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Immigrant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immigrant. Accessed 13 May. 2025.
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