emigrated

past tense of emigrate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of emigrated Ma’s parents emigrated from China and eventually settled in New York. — Jon Regardie, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026 Three million Cubans emigrated between 2013-24, the Harvard report says, citing a loss of close to 30% of the population. — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026 My grandmother in Massachusetts, whose parents had emigrated from Poland, often welcomed us with a box of Entenmann’s danish twists during our visits. — Sean Carlson, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2026 Few Republicans have frustrated Democrats in election after election like Valadao, a dairyman whose family emigrated from Portugal's Azores Islands. — ABC News, 5 Sep. 2026 The children who’d grown up in the house—eight of them, raised by a single mother who emigrated from Ireland—were equally, if not more, delighted. — Nicola Twilley, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2026 Though her work has kept her moving, the New York native has long considered Greece, the country from which her mother's family emigrated to Manhattan, like a second home. — Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Aug. 2026 Barai, who emigrated to Illinois from India to study medicine 51 years ago, compared the relationship to first-generation immigrants’ experiences caring for family in both the homeland and their new country. — Evgenia Anastasakos, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026 Born in Kosovo, Morina emigrated with his family to Germany in the 1990s, before the war that would ultimately lead to the country’s independence. — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 16 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for emigrated
Verb
  • Shallwani’s father migrated from Karachi to the US in 1971, part of a wave of Pakistanis that began to arrive in the United States in increasing numbers by the 1970s.
    — Maryam Jillani, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
  • By the 1980s, Moncler had also migrated from the mountains to the city, as its puffers became part of the uniform of Milan’s Paninari, the post-prep youth tribe of the time.
    — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 5 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Wildlife experts said the bird was relocated to reduce the risk of future negative encounters.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
  • To run his new franchise, Kline relocated from Miami to Salt Lake City.
    — Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Hundreds of Bosnian refugees came to Louisville between 1992-95, and about 5,000 resettled in Bowling Green, where 10% of the population was estimated to be of Bosnian heritage by 2018.
    — Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Displaced from their homes, hundreds of families resettled on the low-lying banks of the Trishuli river – only to face yet another horrific disaster on Wednesday.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Use artificial intelligence to identify people who have moved or changed names.
    — Mark Lewyn, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The season has moved beyond introductions, and Saturday offers another chance to learn which teams are built to stay in the postseason conversation.
    — Wilton Jackson, AJC.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Eisner, Diller’s second in command, departed for Disney when he didn’t get promoted, and he was soon followed out the door by another rising young executive, Jeffrey Katzenberg.
    — Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Bailey departed Burberry in 2018 and was succeeded as chief creative officer by Riccardo Tisci, formerly the creative director at Givenchy (Marco Gobbetti took over Bailey’s CEO role in 2017).
    — Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Once Jalen Brunson took care of business, LeBron bailed for Philly.
    — Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Five men arrested near the base early on Sunday were bailed on Monday.
    — David Brennan, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026

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“Emigrated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emigrated. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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