immigrate
verb (used without object)
to come to a country of which one is not a native, usually for permanent residence.
has immigrated
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present perfectof immigrate (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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This was the first idea the designer Abhi Swaminathan had for Venba, which traces the challenges of an Indian family that has immigrated to Canada in the 1980s.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
This debut novel features a Jamaican family that has immigrated to England as part of the midcentury Windrush generation, and their descendant Jesse, a gay man exiled from his Jehovah’s Witness community.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2021
Hainzl was a longtime neighborhood resident and has immigrated to the United States to escape Nazi persecution in Austria, according to KNTV.
From Fox News ● May 27, 2020
Her son has immigrated to the East bloc.
From Time Magazine Archive
A common roadside weed, which has immigrated from farther south.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
