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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
emigrate .
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Examples
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Persepolis 2 falls into two halves: her Austrian experience, and then her return to Iran, at the end of which she emigrates again to France.
March Books 5) Persepolis 2: the Story of a Return, by Marjane Satrapi nwhyte 2009
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In a debut novel, a family of refuseniks emigrates to escape Soviet oppression, but its motives turn out to be mixed.
Lost in Transit Sam Sacks 2011
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Anyone who emigrates legally, and does what is required to become a citizen, should have that opportunity no matter what country they are from originally or what nationality they are.
Should path for citizenship be made easier for illegal immigrants? 2010
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In Paul McAuley's "Adventure," a dissatisfied man named Ian emigrates to a colony planet to escape his humdrum life, but life might have something to say about that.
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Lilja 4-Ever is the best of the four – fifteen year-old Lilja is left behind in Russia when her mother emigrates to the US.
Recenter Reading Roundup « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2009
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A Mayan tribe emigrates northward but has to fight off Native Americans.
GMTV: TCM's August offerings The Society for the Study of Popular Culture 2009
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When Eilis Lacey emigrates to America, it actually is her first trip out of the country, and we could say very much that her older sister forces this, arranges it all.
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A Mayan tribe emigrates northward but has to fight off Native Americans.
Archive 2009-08-01 The Society for the Study of Popular Culture 2009
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In the end, widowed and without her daughter — who emigrates to Israel — she ends her life living with and caring for the very girl her husband loved and returning to the comfort of fictional worlds.
Liudmila Ulitskaia. 2009
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Like several other arctic predators that specialize in feeding on lemmings and Arctic voles, the snowy owl emigrates when cyclic lemming populations crash to seek high-density prey populations elsewhere in the Arctic and subarctic.
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