immigrating

Definition of immigratingnext
present participle of immigrate
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Verb
  • And the end came well before midnight, with goals by Mitch Marner and Brett Howden in the first 8½ minutes giving Vegas a commanding lead before many in the late-arriving weeknight crowd had made it to their seats at the Honda Center.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2026
  • In her 2018 memoir about her sobriety, Leslie Jamison describes arriving at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop decades after Cheever and Carver taught there.
    Luis Parrales, The Atlantic, 14 May 2026
Verb
  • Indigenous peoples in the area have been coming there for 1000s of years to soak and take advantage of the waters, and so there’s been a hotel or some manner of resort there since the late eighteen hundreds, welcoming people to come and take the waters and relax and enjoy.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 15 May 2026
  • Plus, coming so close and the disappointment (of third) fueled my fire more.
    Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 15 May 2026
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“Immigrating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immigrating. Accessed 19 May. 2026.

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