variants
also emigré
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as in immigrant
one that leaves one place to settle in another
the émigrés moved to many different nations
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Antonyms & Near Antonyms
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for émigré
Noun
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In the wake of the stabbing death of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte, North Carolina, light rail train, the state legislature introduced a bill to crack down on bail for violent offenders, drawing praise from one crime expert.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
26 Sep. 2025 -
Gaza is home to the highest number of child amputees per capita worldwide, the head of the UN’s agency for Palestine refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, said on Wednesday.—
Christina Macfarlane,
CNN Money,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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That idea has more recently been supplanted by the concept of bidirectional assimilation, the theory that just as immigrants adapt to their new country, its institutions adapt to them.—
Laura Clawson,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Sep. 2025
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That's what allowed the shooter to open fire on a van transporting immigrants.—
Rick Jervis,
USA Today,
25 Sep. 2025
Noun
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European migrants brought festivals such as Samhain and other observances of mortality to North America.—
George Petras,
USA Today,
27 Sep. 2025
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Sino-Mexican trade has boomed in recent years, and China last year became the third-biggest source of migrants to Mexico.—
Jeronimo Gonzalez,
semafor.com,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Deadly settler violence and Israeli military operations have also increased in the Palestinian territory.—
Andrea Mitchell,
NBC news,
25 Sep. 2025
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In Venice, François Ozon debuted a take on Albert Camus’ The Stranger, the notoriously philosophical text about a French Algerian settler and the myth of Sisyphus.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
23 Sep. 2025
Noun
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An article in The Guardian in May 2025 reported that a record number of emigrants left New Zealand in 2023 and 2024.—
Alex Ledsom,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Americans still hoping to move to Portugal, meanwhile, might be wise to see if their preferred neighborhoods are already too saturated with fellow emigrants or tourists.—
Michael Bartiromo,
The Hill,
14 June 2025
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“émigré.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/%C3%A9migr%C3%A9. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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