emigrates

verb

present tense third-person singular of emigrate
as in migrates
to leave a country or region to live elsewhere
—often + from My grandparents emigrated from Hungary.

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for emigrates
  1. migrates
  2. relocates
  3. departs
  4. exits
  5. moves
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  • As power migrates from the head coach’s office, universities must relocate it —to the president, elsewhere in the athletics department, or the board.
    — Chris Park, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The Sylvester Stallone series has been renewed for a fifth season at Paramount+ as the production migrates from Georgia to the Big Apple, coinciding with the Season 5 storyline.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of migrates
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  • Desperate to rebuild her life, Maya relocates to Alaska, where she is partnered with Detective Joanna Doyle (Winnick), an accomplished officer carrying the weight of her own devastating past.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026
  • But Resurrection is a return to form, as our genial serial killer relocates to New York after his now-adult son starts his own murder spree.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of relocates
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  • The pair departs campus for Chaffee County during rainy weather.
    — Kelsie Cairns, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2026
  • For her, the biggest challenge is navigating the crowds in order to make it to the Shibuya Station and not miss the last train of the night, which departs around midnight.
    — Lilit Marcus, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of departs
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  • All entrances and exits to the city remained sealed, with the operation focused in Deir Bahha and another part of the city called Al-Jalda, according to Hebron Mayor Yousef Zuhair Al-Jabari.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
  • In video released by police, an officer exits his vehicle and points his gun at Ryan Hinton, who appears to be running away.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of exits
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  • As part of its process, the powered gimbal moves the image around in the general direction the projector's already facing, stopping the movement several times in the process before continuing, and adjusting the image size several times as well.
    — M. David Stone, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Flight testing moves forward L3Harris has reached the second phase of the Army’s Xtended Range Counter-sUAS Missile program.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
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