emigrated

past tense of emigrate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of emigrated My mother was born to parents who emigrated in the 1950s during Batista’s regime. — Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026 In 1944, a few weeks after the liberation of France, Georges Zurabishvili, who had emigrated to France from Georgia in the 1920s, was bundled into a car by three men with machine guns. — Tobias Grey, Air Mail, 10 Oct. 2026 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for emigrated
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • Prince Harry and Meghan Markle just relocated back to the UK, but is their move already proving to be temporary?
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The area was recently reclassified into a high-risk zone for wildfires; the board says the collection has since been relocated for its safety to a museum-caliber facility.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • As a child, Calvin was resettled to the Newfoundland town of Snook’s Arm from the tiny island of Little Pot Rock by the Canadian government as a cost-saving measure.
    — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026
  • 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
Verb
  • The new walkers moved even more slowly to emphasize their enormous weight.
    — Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The alleged rivalry between Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle was seemingly dying down—but then Meghan and Prince Harry moved back to the UK.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 15 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • 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

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“Emigrated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emigrated. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.

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