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
In the decades that followed, missionaries, emigrants, soldiers – and even Pony Express riders – made their way across the area.
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Chris Mueller, Des Moines Register, 9 Mar. 2026
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
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
The hotel was underwritten by the local banana-growing elite as well as by Canarian emigrants who had made their fortunes in the Americas.
—Javier Montes, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
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Chris Mueller, Des Moines Register, 9 Mar. 2026
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
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
The hotel was underwritten by the local banana-growing elite as well as by Canarian emigrants who had made their fortunes in the Americas.
—Javier Montes, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for emigrant
Noun
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For the first time in at least half a century, more immigrants left the country than entered last year, according to estimates released by Brookings Institution.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
24 Mar. 2026
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Under Noem’s leadership, officers were accused of using force to arrest immigrants, detaining them in squalid conditions and bypassing due process to rapidly deport immigrants.—
Rebecca Santana,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Mar. 2026
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Over the past year, groups of a few hundred migrants have typically dispersed within days without traveling beyond southern Mexico.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
26 Mar. 2026
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Chicago native Pope Leo XIV also condemned the nation’s recent treatment of migrants.—
Angie Leventis Lourgos,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Mar. 2026
Noun
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But Union troops in Colorado were also responsible for forcing Indigenous people from their homes as white settlers moved into the state.—
Christa Swanson,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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Bakri is more brittle in Farah Nabulsi’s The Teacher as Basem, a Palestinian teacher in the West Bank whose support for insurgents grows after his own son dies in prison and as Israeli settlers brutalize his neighborhood.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
24 Mar. 2026
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People can qualify for benefits under the federal law if they were granted asylum, admitted as a refugee or are recognized as a victim of human trafficking, for example.—
ALEJANDRO SERRANO The Texas Tribune,
Arkansas Online,
26 Mar. 2026
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Any encounter with the police, even if a refugee has a valid visa, is risky.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
24 Mar. 2026
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“Emigrant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emigrant. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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