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Six example sentences with emigrate, each labelled with its topic.
Nearly two million people emigrated from Ireland in a single decade, most sailing from Cobh toward Boston and Philadelphia.
History
When the currency collapsed, engineers began to emigrate in numbers large enough that ministries started offering bonuses to stay.
Politics
Households that emigrate often send money home for decades, and those transfers can outweigh every export the region ships.
Economics
Rather than wait years for a visa lottery, the founders emigrated to Toronto and rebuilt the company there.
Startups
The composer emigrated to Los Angeles in 1934 and spent the rest of his career writing for studios and students.
Music
Dozens of physicists emigrated from Germany in the 1930s, and several ended up teaching in the same New Jersey town.
Science
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