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Recent Examples of émigré With the Greeks being the largest Orthodox emigre community in the United States, Elpidophoros presides over one of the largest Orthodox parishes in the country. Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 24 Mar. 2025 Lillian Feldman was born to impecunious Jewish emigres in Cincinnati on July 13, 1927, the twelfth of thirteen children who were encouraged by their mother to draw on the walls. News Desk, Artforum, 17 Oct. 2024 Some emigres have managed to keep their jobs in Israel, working remotely as digital nomads. Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2024 With the Greeks being the largest Orthodox emigre community in the United States, Elpidophoros presides over one of the largest Orthodox parishes in the country. Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 24 Mar. 2025 Some emigres have managed to keep their jobs in Israel, working remotely as digital nomads. Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2024 The son of Soviet emigres who settled in New Jersey, Gershkovich moved to Russia in 2017 to work for The Moscow Times newspaper before being hired by the Journal in 2022. Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024 The son of Soviet emigres who settled in New Jersey, Mr. Gershkovich was fluent in Russian and moved to the country in 2017 to work for The Moscow Times newspaper before being hired by the Journal in 2022. Kirill Zarubin, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 July 2024 Lincoln settled for a compromise authorizing private financing that still provided impoverished emigres with money to cross the ocean. Harold Holzer, New York Daily News, 4 July 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for émigré
Noun
  • Views on refugees generally The poll — which sampled 1,560 U.S. adults May 22-27 — began by asking respondents for their general views on refugees, who typically flee their home country due to violence or persecution.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 3 June 2025
  • Nawrocki, 42, a newcomer to politics who previously ran a national remembrance institute, campaigned on a promise to ensure economic and social policies favour Poles over other nationalities, including refugees from neighbouring Ukraine.
    Anna Magdalena Lubowicka, USA Today, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • The same state Supreme Court suspended Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan back in April after federal officials accused the judge of allegedly helping an immigrant avoid arrest by federal immigration authorities.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 28 May 2025
  • According to Advocates for Immigrant Rights and Reconciliation, a Kansas City area immigrants rights group, 80 immigrants rounded up by federal authorities are already being held in FCI Leavenworth, a separate federal prison in the city.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 28 May 2025
Noun
  • However, at the time of her post, investigators were already looking into the possibility that the migrant had been set up by Demetric Scott, who was awaiting trial in a robbery and assault case in which the migrant was the victim.
    Jade Walker, CNN Money, 4 June 2025
  • The immigration cases of some of the Venezuelan migrants who were deported to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act in March have been dismissed, their attorneys said, raising concern from advocates and lawyers who say the move is a violation of due process.
    Laura Romero, ABC News, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • This year’s Flag March again coincided with the war in Gaza, now in its 20th month, and escalating Israeli military operations against Palestinian militants in the West Bank, where settler attacks targeting Palestinian residents have been on the rise.
    Reuters, NBC news, 27 May 2025
  • Jude Law, Vanessa Kirby, Ana de Armas, Sydney Sweeney, and Daniel Brühl are among the stars gone enjoyably unhinged for this true story of melodramatic conflict among the European settlers of a Galápagos island.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • But at the time, the Israeli government was also considering the expulsion of terrorists from Gaza and trying to persuade Egypt and other countries to take in voluntary emigrants from Gaza.
    Assaf Orion, Foreign Affairs, 3 June 2025
  • According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, there were some 143,000 Ivorian emigrants living in France in 2020.
    Christopher Clark, The Dial, 13 May 2025

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“émigré.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/%C3%A9migr%C3%A9. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.

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