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
Hari Kunzru, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
An immigrant who changed the face of music and left his legacy in a light that continues to shine.
—Sarah Sotoodeh , Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 27 Jan. 2026
James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2026
Whether passed down through family recipes or calibrated with fine dining precision, cioppino reflects our immigrant heritage and wild ingredients in San Francisco.
—Becky Duffett, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
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Noun
Growing up nearby, the painter Leon Kossoff, son of Russian Jewish immigrants, could not escape the presence of the church, alien and haughty, in a district that had become an almost entirely Jewish quarter.
—Hari Kunzru, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
An immigrant who changed the face of music and left his legacy in a light that continues to shine.
—Sarah Sotoodeh , Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 27 Jan. 2026
Adjective
Pablo Alvarado of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network asked activists to go to places where immigrant workers gather, such as day labor centers and car washes, and keep watch over them.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2026
Whether passed down through family recipes or calibrated with fine dining precision, cioppino reflects our immigrant heritage and wild ingredients in San Francisco.
—Becky Duffett, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for immigrant
Noun
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Sandweg also said the Border Patrol has no business operating in a city like Minneapolis because their training is geared more toward encountering drug cartels and migrants along the border.—
Anna Schecter,
CBS News,
28 Jan. 2026
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Spain plans to grant 500,000 undocumented migrants legal status, bucking a trend among many Western nations that are cracking down on immigration.—
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semafor.com,
28 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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However, an informal, expatriate group of academics and professionals told TIME on Sunday that, per their calculations, protester deaths could have reached 6,000 through Saturday.—
Richard Hall,
Time,
14 Jan. 2026
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Brooke devised the novel during her tenure as the expatriate wife of a chaplain stationed at a British garrison in Quebec.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
18 Oct. 2025
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The hotel was underwritten by the local banana-growing elite as well as by Canarian emigrants who had made their fortunes in the Americas.—
Javier Montes,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2026
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Along with cargo, millions of emigrants boarded ships bound for the U.S. and Canada from nearby docks, including the likes of Albert Einstein and abstract expressionist painter Willem de Kooning (who has a 1969 painting in the galleries).—
Blane Bachelor,
AFAR Media,
20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Visitors to K’gari are warned of the risks, but James says young foreign nationals like his daughter, who work on the island, need firmer guardrails.—
Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
24 Jan. 2026
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Meanwhile, tens of thousands of people, including foreign nationals, remain held in the detention camps.—
Chas Newkey-Burden,
TheWeek,
23 Jan. 2026
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What settler stole this sacred land and is now charging me for these healing waters?—
Gaby Iori
January 27,
Literary Hub,
27 Jan. 2026
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And so Heyerdahl recast the island’s earliest settlers as members of a Caucasian race who had migrated from what is now Iraq or Turkey to the Americas and then across the Pacific, and who were tall, fair, blue-eyed, and bearded—not unlike Heyerdahl himself, as Pitts wryly observes.—
Margaret Talbot,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Last season saw Mark further developing his skills with Cecil (Walton Goggins) and the Guardians of the Globe in preparation for an imminent collision with an alien invasion force of Viltrumites.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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The oversharing Cynthia immediately passes this information on to her daughter, leading to a meet-cute in the laundry room that quickly escalates into Mary becoming, well, alien pregnant.—
Katie Rife,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2026
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Lots of small, family-owned and run Vietnamese and Vietnamese-Chinese refugee businesses there, alongside a long-standing Greek restaurant and a German restaurant with an urban legend about being haunted, and now, some Latinx businesses, a Jamaican restaurant, a Somali restaurant.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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Turkish officials have expressed concern that intervention in Iran could spark instability or trigger a refugee influx.—
Jon Gambrell,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Immigrant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immigrant. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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