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emigration

[em-i-grey-shuhn] / ˌɛm ɪˈgreɪ ʃən /


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That number of returns is equivalent to about 6% of total emigration from the UK from January 2025 to December 2025.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2026

But recent scholarship has exploded this pretense and identified hundreds of anonymous tracts and articles that Paine seems to have written in the years before his emigration to America.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

Europe is luring them in with a variety of programs that incentivize emigration, such as the European Commission’s €1.25 billion “Choose Europe for Science” initiative.

From Barron's Apr. 16, 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 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

When deaths and emigrations were totaled and deducted, the group mysteriously gained 170,000 in population.

From Time Magazine Archive

Who can doubt that this demonstration was known and watched in Germany from the beginning; and that it helped the successive experiments and emigrations of the Rappites, the Zoarites and the Ebenezers?

From History of American Socialisms by Noyes, John Humphrey




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