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Recent Examples of migrant
Noun
At Gare du Nord, Eurostar patrons pass through UK/France border control and go on to enjoy their work or leisure time in Paris while crossing paths with a class of undocumented migrants who do not have the same luxury of international travel. Mara Hoberman, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025 Most experts, however, disagree and believe that the criminal presence among Venezuelan migrants is proportionally very small. Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 3 Feb. 2025 Just before Christmas six people were killed in Magdeburg after a Saudi-origin migrant drove a car through a Christmas market. Sebastian Shukla, CNN, 3 Feb. 2025 Experts and advocates told ABC News that, without a lawyer, migrants are left to navigate the different avenues of relief alone, filling out documents in a foreign language and arguing their case before a judge. Laura Romero, ABC News, 23 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for migrant 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for migrant
Noun
  • His parents, immigrants from Argentina, moved from Eagle Rock to Altadena in the 1970s after finding a home large enough for them and their seven children.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Agents took the names of everyone in the apartment and took at least one person, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic, into custody, Gonzalez, 38, said.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 28 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • An obvious reason for this gap is the submergence of Sundaland that began about 400,000 years ago, wiping away most migratory routes our H. erectus ancestors would have crossed.
    Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
  • New Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is already implementing the same playbook, issuing orders to ramp up oil and gas leasing, weaken migratory bird protections and consider changes to national monuments boundaries for the sake of increasing fossil fuel production.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The plight of Palestinian refugees offers a cautionary tale.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Funding for United Nations agencies, including peacekeeping, human rights and refugee agencies, have been traditional targets for Republican administrations to cut.
    Ellen Knickmeyer and Meg Kinnard, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Due to a lack of hedgehogs, the settlers began using another hibernating mammal: the groundhog.
    Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Violence has grown in the West Bank; settlers are out of control, even as President Donald Trump has lifted sanctions on them; and there is more talk of annexation of the West Bank by Israel, which would most likely mean denying Palestinians democratic rights.
    Nicholas Kristof, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In the massacre, settlers of the LDS Church involved in a territorial militia killed 120 American western emigrants.
    Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2025
  • When a wagon train of emigrants traveling from Arkansas to California passed through the area, Mormon militiamen surrounded the group and brutally slaughtered more than 100 men, women, and children.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025

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“Migrant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/migrant. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.

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