emigrated

verb

past tense of emigrate
as in migrated
to leave a country or region to live elsewhere
—often + from My grandparents emigrated from Hungary.

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Recent Examples of emigrated That outbreak was linked to a community of people who emigrated from Ukraine over the past few decades. — Erika Edwards, NBC news, 5 Oct. 2026 Ma’s parents emigrated from China and eventually settled in New York. — Jon Regardie, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026 Three million Cubans emigrated between 2013-24, the Harvard report says, citing a loss of close to 30% of the population. — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026 My grandmother in Massachusetts, whose parents had emigrated from Poland, often welcomed us with a box of Entenmann’s danish twists during our visits. — Sean Carlson, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2026 Few Republicans have frustrated Democrats in election after election like Valadao, a dairyman whose family emigrated from Portugal's Azores Islands. — ABC News, 5 Sep. 2026 The children who’d grown up in the house—eight of them, raised by a single mother who emigrated from Ireland—were equally, if not more, delighted. — Nicola Twilley, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2026 Though her work has kept her moving, the New York native has long considered Greece, the country from which her mother's family emigrated to Manhattan, like a second home. — Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Aug. 2026 Barai, who emigrated to Illinois from India to study medicine 51 years ago, compared the relationship to first-generation immigrants’ experiences caring for family in both the homeland and their new country. — Evgenia Anastasakos, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for emigrated
  1. migrated
  2. relocated
  3. resettled
  4. moved
  5. departed
  6. bailed
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  • This unique trait has led planetary scientists to hypothesize that the asteroid formed in the frigid outer solar system and migrated inward early in the solar system's history.
    — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Shallwani’s father migrated from Karachi to the US in 1971, part of a wave of Pakistanis that began to arrive in the United States in increasing numbers by the 1970s.
    — Maryam Jillani, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of migrated
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  • Staff were then relocated from eastern Ukraine to salons in the west of the country, or the business’s locations in Poland, Georgia, and Cyprus.
    — Lucy Abbersteen, Allure, 9 Oct. 2026
  • John had become seriously ill with a liver disease, and the couple had relocated to Koh Samui to seek out a special herb that grew here.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of relocated
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  • Hundreds of Bosnian refugees came to Louisville between 1992-95, and about 5,000 resettled in Bowling Green, where 10% of the population was estimated to be of Bosnian heritage by 2018.
    — Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Displaced from their homes, hundreds of families resettled on the low-lying banks of the Trishuli river – only to face yet another horrific disaster on Wednesday.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of resettled
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  • This week, SpaceX moved one step closer to its goal of building its direct-to-device Starlink Mobile service after the FCC approved the aerospace company’s application to deploy and operate 15,000 next-generation Starlink satellites.
    — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2026
  • On the day Erica and Peter moved into 150 Charles, their attorney claims, they were greeted with a cluttered and dirty space that didn’t square with the $26,000-a-month rent.
    — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of moved
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  • The defendant and others are said to have used a yacht that departed from the German port of Rostock.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Unfortunately, this future focus dwindled and largely disappeared in the following decades as key leaders departed Congress, and their successors pursued other interests.
    — John T. Shaw, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of departed
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  • And then none of it mattered because his special teams bailed him out with a big kick return (thanks to a terrible decision by Eagles coach Nick Sirianni to even allow a kick return in the first place) followed by a walk-off field goal.
    — Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026
  • The suspect, who was not named, is the seventh man bailed in the investigation of an apparent plot aimed at RAF Fairford air base, which has been used by American bombers to strike Iran.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of bailed

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