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emigration

[em-i-grey-shuhn] / ˌɛm ɪˈgreɪ ʃən /


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Years of economic crisis, underinvestment and political turmoil have hollowed out once thriving communities, with many homes left empty thanks to mass emigration.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

Immigration and emigration estimates, external from the ONS are updated twice a year.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

It’s a chance to chill for the people of a nation — once among the richest in Latin America — that has endured more than a decade of economic meltdown, political turmoil and mass emigration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

And on top of that, there have been high levels of emigration and low immigration.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026

As far as Desdemona was concerned, death was only another kind of emigration.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

John James Audubon was among the reputable witnesses of what are more properly called emigrations, not migrations.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2023

It was considered enough to express the tragedy of emigrations, of displaced people and their long march.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 15, 2013

It was 1840, three years after the first baptisms, when the emigrations began.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2012

It was sudden climate change on a similar scale, and it resulted in a severe famine in Europe, food riots and mass emigrations.

From Time Magazine Archive

All of the major emigrations were completed before 1960.

From Area Handbook for Bulgaria by Violeta D. Baluyut




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