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also emigrés
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as in immigrants
one that leaves one place to settle in another
the émigrés moved to many different nations
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Recent Examples of émigrés
Over the summer, Jewish Federation of Greater Washington CEO Gil Preuss accompanied a group of over 100 such emigres from Paris to Israel.
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Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 7 Oct. 2025
Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 7 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for émigrés
Noun
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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
Noun
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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
Noun
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What is really happening in South Africa with migrants coming here in search of a better life?—
Thinus Ferreira,
Variety,
6 Mar. 2026
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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
Noun
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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
Noun
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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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“émigrés.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/%C3%A9migr%C3%A9s. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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