as in migrant
one that leaves one place to settle in another
America was founded by immigrants and they have been its lifeblood ever since
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Recent Examples of immigrant
Martina Castellanos, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Analysts say the Medicaid decision has contributed to coverage gaps among low‑income and immigrant populations in the state.
—Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
The removal of 290,000 immigrants and the emigration of 30,000 people is expected to occur between 2026 and 2030.
—Tobias Burns, The Hill, 10 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Stock trading app The son of an Indian immigrant scientist who worked for NASA, Bhatt grew up in a household where English was a second language and money was tight.
—Martina Castellanos, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Analysts say the Medicaid decision has contributed to coverage gaps among low‑income and immigrant populations in the state.
—Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
Local leaders like Wences claim immigrants are wrongfully being detained by federal agents looking to root out violent criminals.
—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
The removal of 290,000 immigrants and the emigration of 30,000 people is expected to occur between 2026 and 2030.
—Tobias Burns, The Hill, 10 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for immigrant
Noun
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More than 28,000 migrants have arrived in small boats across the Channel so far this year.—
Vitalii Yalahuzian,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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On Friday, an undocumented migrant in a suburb of Chicago was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer after resisting arrest.—
Antonia Mortensen,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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While the government does not publish official figures on expatriate numbers in Kenya, the latest available Central Bank data suggests their growing presence as expatriates wired out a record $671 million to their home countries in 2023, up 24% from the previous year.—
Martin K.N Siele,
semafor.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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The loss of remittances from expatriate workers, a vital part of Afghanistan's economy, is also hurting.—
Monika Evstatieva,
NPR,
29 July 2025
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An article in The Guardian in May 2025 reported that a record number of emigrants left New Zealand in 2023 and 2024.—
Alex Ledsom,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Americans still hoping to move to Portugal, meanwhile, might be wise to see if their preferred neighborhoods are already too saturated with fellow emigrants or tourists.—
Michael Bartiromo,
The Hill,
14 June 2025
Adjective
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The content drew attention to the country’s inequality by contrasting the lives of the children of the country’s elite – with designer clothing and foreign vacations – with images of Nepali migrant workers returning home in coffins from dangerous jobs abroad.—
Nir Kshetri,
The Conversation,
14 Sep. 2025
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The movie has already broken local opening records abroad for an anime movie with an overall foreign total of $350M per The Numbers, the bulk of that from Japan.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Whose idea was this, and what kinds of settler-colonial relations does this mock holdup invert?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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The earth itself has an abundance of pot-worthy clay, which attracted early settlers and has continued to sustain generations of potters.—
Jennifer Prince,
Southern Living,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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See where the cast of the fan-favorite film ended up after surviving Herrington High's alien invasion.—
Keith Langston,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 Sep. 2025
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The third season of Apple’s big alien invasion series continues to drop episodes each week.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In the 1988 New Fashioned, a whiskey cocktail named for the year Vang’s family immigrated to the United States from the Thai refugee camp Ban Vinai, a stately ice cube is engraved with a geometric symbol evoking traditional Hmong embroidery.—
The Bon Appétit Staff,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
12 Sep. 2025
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Bureau staff were told the group itself, already gutted as part of mass layoffs at the State Department in July, would refocus on migration diplomacy and disaster response rather than its traditional refugee focus.—
Ted Hesson,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Immigrant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immigrant. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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