MIGRATORS Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

migrators

noun

plural of migrator

as in pilgrims

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The site near the Spanish border draws millions of pilgrims each year, especially sick and disabled believers hoping for a cure from the famed spring water in the Lourdes grotto where the visions purportedly occurred.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2026
In Lourdes, where believers say a famous Catholic shrine gushes with healing waters, streets were crowded with pilgrims waving flags and holding babies aloft as the pope passed in his popemobile.

— Chris Livesay, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026

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Italy was once among Europe’s nuclear pioneers, operating four reactors before a 1987 referendum effectively ended the program.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026
Wagering on outcomes as a way to forecast election results was supplanted beginning in the 1930s with the emergence of quasi-scientific polling techniques developed by pioneers in survey research such as George Gallup and Elmo Roper.

— W. Joseph Campbell, The Conversation, 22 Sep. 2026

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In addition to familiar faces from Season 1, he’ll be joined by series newcomers Tommy Lee Jones and Betty Gilpin, who respectively play his estranged father and a public defender who enters his orbit.

— Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2026
Many newcomers moved to Florida during the pandemic, with some seeking the state’s less restrictive COVID-19 policies and many registering as Republicans.

— Liv Coleman, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026

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The effort would target B1 and B2 visas issued between 2016 and 2026 to foreigners who later sought asylum.

— Louis Casiano , Preston Mizell, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2026
In Europe, multiethnic capitals are pilloried by the far right as demographic time bombs, ground zero for invasions of unwanted foreigners.

— Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2026

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