emigration

Example Sentences

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Some people say they've resorted to fibbing about illnesses, emigration or even prison sentences so the company will stop trying to keep them signed up.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

Demographers say Cuba is undergoing one of the world’s fastest population declines — a 25% drop in just four years — as birth rates fall and emigration soars.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026

As Sandford recounted, the Founders understood that their new nation was, in James Madison’s words, “indebted to emigration for her settlement and prosperity.”

From Slate • Mar. 18, 2026

But for Varvara, the uncertainty of emigration outweighed the risks of staying.

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026

That had been the ultimate incentive of emigration: the android servant as carrot, the radioactive fallout as stick.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick