immigrating

Definition of immigratingnext
present participle of immigrate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for immigrating
Verb
  • The crash happened late Sunday night as an Air Canada regional jet arriving from Montreal and carrying 76 people struck an airport fire truck that had initially been cleared to cross the runway to respond to a separate incident aboard another plane.
    ABC News, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • People kept arriving from behind, and with nowhere for the front to go, density and compression climbed together toward a threshold that crowd safety researchers consider dangerous.
    Yook JiHun, Popular Science, 26 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • My friend Thai, whose parents were part of the Weather Underground leadership, remembers his father, Jeff Jones, coming home one day to find their family’s Hoboken apartment surrounded by cops—a fire inspector had spotted his tiny crop of marijuana plants on the fire escape.
    Zayd Ayers Dohrn, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2026
  • For now, channel the ambition, trust the momentum, and know that the slower, more nourishing chapter is coming.
    Kirah Tabourn, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Mar. 2026
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“Immigrating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immigrating. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.

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