as in to migrate
to leave a country or region to live elsewhere
—often + from
My grandparents emigrated from Hungary.
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Recent Examples of emigrate
Her Filipino parents emigrated from big-city Manila to this tiny farming community of 2,000 people in the 1970s, when her father, a surgeon, was recruited to work there.
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NPR, 15 Oct. 2025
An analysis conducted by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, or FRA, also concluded last year that more than half of respondents had either emigrated or considered emigration in the five years prior to the survey.
—Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 7 Oct. 2025
Ma, her young daughter, and her father, Dadu, are a week out from joining Ma’s husband in Michigan, where he’s emigrated, when their food supply is raided and passports are stolen.
—Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2025
At the age of 4, her family emigrated from Russia to Carmel, New Jersey.
—Menika Dirkson, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
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NPR, 15 Oct. 2025
An analysis conducted by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, or FRA, also concluded last year that more than half of respondents had either emigrated or considered emigration in the five years prior to the survey.
—Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 7 Oct. 2025
Ma, her young daughter, and her father, Dadu, are a week out from joining Ma’s husband in Michigan, where he’s emigrated, when their food supply is raided and passports are stolen.
—Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2025
At the age of 4, her family emigrated from Russia to Carmel, New Jersey.
—Menika Dirkson, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for emigrate
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Early settlers cared for the seedlings until Chapman returned and sold the inexpensive young trees to people migrating westward.—
Bethany Thayer,
Freep.com,
18 Oct. 2025
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On the night of October 4, 2023, hundreds of migrating birds slammed into McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, a large building in one of the major migratory fly-ways that's floor-to-ceiling glass, right on the edge of Lake Michigan.—
NPR,
NPR,
17 Oct. 2025
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If Doan’s Coyotes records were treated the same way Hawerchuk’s Jets records were, moving from one city to the next as a franchise relocated, then Utah Mammoth star Clayton Keller would be chasing him.—
Murat Ates,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Dinosaur mummy zone Senior author of the study, Paul Sereno, PhD, Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago, and his team relocated the sites in east-central Wyoming where several famous dinosaur mummies were discovered in the early 20th century.—
Abhishek Bhardwaj,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Oct. 2025
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The family resettled in 1852 to Paris, where Berthe and two sisters began drawing lessons.—
Robert Taylor,
Mercury News,
21 Oct. 2025
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After brief stays in Philadelphia and at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, the family was resettled in Miami—a placement chosen for them.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
18 Oct. 2025
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The buttery-soft fabric is lightweight and stretchy enough to move with you while still retaining its shape over time.—
Sophie Dodd,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Oct. 2025
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On top of that responsibility and stress, he was frustrated with the Blazers’ losing and his role moving forward.—
Jason Quick,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Yet the Commonwealth of Massachusetts rewards people like Kyle by holding them without the right to bail.—
Lance Reynolds,
Boston Herald,
22 Oct. 2025
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Republicans are blocking this extension while turning a blind eye to their own president sending $40 billion to Argentina to bail them out, a cost far more expensive than extending health care tax credits another year.—
Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Oc Register,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Emigrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emigrate. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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