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Rule "confusion of emigrate and immigrate"

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Description:	confusion of emigrate and immigrate
Message:	The verb "emigrate" describes moving away from a place, and "immigrate" describes moving to a place. Did you mean "\1 from" or "\1 to"?
Category:	Commonly Confused Words (ID: CONFUSED_WORDS)
Link:	https://languagetool.org/insights/post/word-choice-immigrate-emigrate-migrate/
Incorrect sentences that this rule can detect:	We will immigrate from Poland. Correction suggestion: emigrate from, immigrate to Yani immigrated from Algeria. Correction suggestion: emigrated from, immigrated to Later, Motahari immigrates from Isfahan because of hot climate of Qom Correction suggestion: emigrates from, immigrates to Other areas were populated by lync immigrating from France. Correction suggestion: emigrating from, immigrating to
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Check the following text against just this rule:
ID:	EMIGRATE_IMMIGRATE_CONFUSION [2]
Version:	6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-04-19 22:33:07 +0200)

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