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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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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
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Cities with a strong expatriate community or business hubs often offer high rental yields.—
Stephen Akintayo,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 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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The 100-day mark comes as the Trump administration is hashing out trade negotiations with countries across the world after Mr. Trump levied nearly worldwide tariffs on foreign imports, tariffs that most economists say will make goods more expensive and worsen economic prospects.—
Kathryn Watson,
CBS News,
29 Apr. 2025
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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
Noun
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My life is still at the mercy of the settlers and the occupation.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
25 Apr. 2025
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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
Adjective
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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
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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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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
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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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“Immigrant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immigrant. Accessed 9 May. 2025.
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