as in immigrants
one that leaves one place to settle in another
we traced our family history back to migrants who came to this country seeking a better life for themselves
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Recent Examples of migrants
What is really happening in South Africa with migrants coming here in search of a better life?
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Thinus Ferreira, Variety, 6 Mar. 2026
This includes some of the millions of inadmissible migrants released at the border under Biden, like Karan Singh.
—Simon Hankinson, Boston Herald, 6 Mar. 2026
Courts, Democrats, protesters push back Federal judges have said Noem and the administration have defied court orders that prohibited the agency from sending undocumented migrants, some of whom DHS admitted did not have criminal records, to CECOT.
—Luke Barr, ABC News, 5 Mar. 2026
Salt was another luxury for the impoverished migrants.
—Literary Hub, 4 Mar. 2026
The Persian migrants found a land where entrepreneurship was valued and the immigrant spirit appreciated.
—Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2026
Noem also faced some Republican criticism Republicans largely kept the focus on the large numbers of migrants who came into the country under former President Joe Biden, portraying Noem as the leader of a cleanup effort of the former administration’s mess.
—Dallas Morning News, 3 Mar. 2026
Sesame Workshop has used technology to help children in crisis, including Venezuelan refugees and migrants.
—Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 3 Mar. 2026
In January, Border Patrol apprehended 151 migrants in Big Bend Sector.
—Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 28 Feb. 2026
Thinus Ferreira, Variety, 6 Mar. 2026
This includes some of the millions of inadmissible migrants released at the border under Biden, like Karan Singh.
—Simon Hankinson, Boston Herald, 6 Mar. 2026
Courts, Democrats, protesters push back Federal judges have said Noem and the administration have defied court orders that prohibited the agency from sending undocumented migrants, some of whom DHS admitted did not have criminal records, to CECOT.
—Luke Barr, ABC News, 5 Mar. 2026
Salt was another luxury for the impoverished migrants.
—Literary Hub, 4 Mar. 2026
The Persian migrants found a land where entrepreneurship was valued and the immigrant spirit appreciated.
—Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2026
Noem also faced some Republican criticism Republicans largely kept the focus on the large numbers of migrants who came into the country under former President Joe Biden, portraying Noem as the leader of a cleanup effort of the former administration’s mess.
—Dallas Morning News, 3 Mar. 2026
Sesame Workshop has used technology to help children in crisis, including Venezuelan refugees and migrants.
—Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 3 Mar. 2026
In January, Border Patrol apprehended 151 migrants in Big Bend Sector.
—Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 28 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for migrants
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Stanton’s disdain for immigrants led her into emergent realms of pseudoscience that would transform into eugenics; her rhetoric about women strayed from the principle of gender equality into essentialist ideas about women’s feminine specialness.—
Moira Donegan,
New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2026
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Egyptian immigrants Azzam and Samra Ahmed are padding their savings by performing for bots in their one-bedroom apartment in Pasadena.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Mar. 2026
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The area was later named in his honor, as more settlers moved in.—
Martin E. Comas,
The Orlando Sentinel,
10 Mar. 2026
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Volkspele were historical cosplay events for preteens, musical re-enactments of the Great Trek — the 19th-century migration of Afrikaner settlers away from British rule, heading inland in ox-wagons, that has been mythologized through tales of women and children crossing the Drakensberg barefoot.—
Jan Steyn,
The Dial,
10 Mar. 2026
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The title refers to the million Syrian refugees that were admitted into Germany during the brutal civil war that culminated with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fleeing to Moscow in November 2024.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
12 Mar. 2026
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Additionally, asylum seekers, asylees, refugees and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients would be ineligible.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
11 Mar. 2026
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The city’s Hadhramis are descendants of the emigrants from Yemen’s Hadhramout region who began settling in Johor in the 1800s.—
Jeff Chu,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Feb. 2026
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Malinin is the son of two former Olympic skaters, Tatiana Malinina and Roman Skorniakov, Russian emigrants who competed for Uzbekistan but came to Virginia in 1998.—
Sally Jenkins,
The Atlantic,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Migrants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/migrants. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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