emigrate

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Recent Examples of emigrate Hotel Marcel, Connecticut, USA The Oscar-tipped film The Brutalist is said to be based on the life of Hungarian-German architect Marcel Breuer, who emigrated to America and designed over 100 buildings in his lifetime. Kissa Castaneda, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025 Caro emigrated from Colombia to Hartford, Connecticut, in 1981 and shortly afterward met his wife, Amparo, a native of Medellin, Colombia. Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025 But Brody gave both a physical and emotional performance as a Hungarian Jew who emigrates and gets caught up in the web of the American dream and a nightmare project overseen by a creepy American entrepreneur. Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025 To emigrate from Germany, the Weber children had to be declared orphans – an arrangement their father agreed to in hopes his kids could live a better life in the United States. Matthew Carey, Deadline, 24 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for emigrate
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Verb
  • In west Africa this causes the inter-tropical convergence zone—where moist air from the south meets dry air from the north—to migrate from the Sahel towards the Gulf of Guinea.
    Christophe Lavaysse, JSTOR Daily, 17 Apr. 2025
  • But last month, Huang signaled that his company was preparing to migrate more manufacturing to the US when tech companies, including OpenAI, are buying hundreds of thousands of enterprise-grade GPUs from Nvidia.
    Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The couple relocated to the Eastern Shore two years ago.
    Todd Karpovich, Baltimore Sun, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Boca Raton parks and recreation officials are looking to improve and update the city’s parks by analyzing the existing parks to determine what changes are needed the most and where to relocate some of the city’s current facilities.
    South Florida Sun Sentinel, Sun Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Of those who survived, many resettled in San Jose, now home to the largest Vietnamese population in a single city outside Vietnam.
    Jovi Dai, Mercury News, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Between August 2021 and August 2024, nearly 150,000 Afghans resettled in the United States, according to .
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • According to Victoria Dittmar of Insight Crime, a think tank that studies organized crime in the Americas, production continues by other Sinaloa cartel factions, and has since moved into neighboring states like Sonora and Baja California, where cooks operate under the oversight of the cartel.
    Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Golden eagles will forage during migration flights and use this uplift from heated air, which also comes from open landscapes, to move efficiently during migration and seasonal movements.
    Noël Fletcher, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Hong Kong investors bailed him out in exchange for 70% of the property.
    Dan Alexander, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • People who can’t afford to buy flood insurance should not be allowed to build there — then wait for FEMA to bail them out.
    Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2025

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“Emigrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emigrate. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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