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emigration

[em-i-gray-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

Europe, unlike the U.S., was long a land of emigration not immigration, sending millions of its sons and daughters to the Americas and overseas empires.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Oil-rich Venezuela, a country of 28 million that was long among the wealthiest nations in Latin America, has suffered a decade of economic decline and mass emigration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

It may have been that they were weak people, ill suited for the rigors of emigration, its humiliations and compromises, its competing demands of self-discipline and adventurousness.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

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

Parsis, or fire-worshippers, the ancient, 205. their prosperous colony in Bombay, 205. their various emigrations, 205 note. their ancient language, 205, 210.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller




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