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to leave a country or region to live elsewhere
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My grandparents emigrated from Hungary.
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Recent Examples of emigrated
Many Lebanese here emigrated to West Africa to start businesses or worked in Gulf Arab states.
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Jane Arraf, NPR, 3 Nov. 2025
Well-known in the civic circles of the affluent Westside of Los Angeles, Farzam is the son of a longtime hotel owner and former doctor who emigrated from Iran.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2025
Richard Hermann emigrated to the United States and earned his doctorate in forestry at Yale in Connecticut.
—Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 30 Oct. 2025
The 25-year-old was born in Bakersfield to parents who emigrated from Mexico.
—Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Kariat’s parents emigrated from a small village in India to Canada.
—Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
His father lost his position when the Nazis came to power in 1933, and the family emigrated to South Africa.
—David Moin, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025
Amid this Iranian diaspora, many of these people emigrated to Los Angeles, with some of them being the same people who had contributed to pre-revolution Iran’s golden age of entertainment.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 17 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
Jane Arraf, NPR, 3 Nov. 2025
Well-known in the civic circles of the affluent Westside of Los Angeles, Farzam is the son of a longtime hotel owner and former doctor who emigrated from Iran.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2025
Richard Hermann emigrated to the United States and earned his doctorate in forestry at Yale in Connecticut.
—Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 30 Oct. 2025
The 25-year-old was born in Bakersfield to parents who emigrated from Mexico.
—Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Kariat’s parents emigrated from a small village in India to Canada.
—Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
His father lost his position when the Nazis came to power in 1933, and the family emigrated to South Africa.
—David Moin, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025
Amid this Iranian diaspora, many of these people emigrated to Los Angeles, with some of them being the same people who had contributed to pre-revolution Iran’s golden age of entertainment.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 17 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for emigrated
Verb
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The beetle has mostly migrated to new locations by humans accidentally moving it to new locations via firewood and lumber.—
Caitlin Looby,
jsonline.com,
29 Oct. 2025
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Members of the Crow Tribe have said that when their ancestors migrated into the region 300-400 years ago, the Medicine Wheel was already here.—
Mike Bezemek,
Outside,
29 Oct. 2025
Verb
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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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The town was established after San Francisco banned new burials and exhumed and relocated bodies to Colma in the early 1900s.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
25 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
Verb
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On an 0-2 pitch, Roberts moved the infield back to double play depth.—
Barry M. Bloom,
Sportico.com,
2 Nov. 2025
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The depth chart got even thinner when Jaishawn Barham, who moved back to inside linebacker after playing on the edge in recent weeks, left the game in the first quarter with an injury.—
Austin Meek,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Michaelson, who departed Fox’s Los Angeles affiliate last summer, makes the case for a West Coast-centric show.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
24 Oct. 2025
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Unlike the innumerable photons from sunlight, perhaps a dozen per second trickle through my cornea from this distant messenger, having departed it years ago, colliding with my photoreceptors and ending their unlikely journey.—
Rowan Jacobsen,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
Verb
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So Allen took the snap, scanned the field, found no open receivers and bailed right, his eyes still sifting through layers of zone.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
11 Oct. 2025
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When Zeev Buium bailed on a check from Colton Parayko, there Gustavsson was moments later to save the day.—
Michael Russo,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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