emigration
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Its leaders rejected emigration to Palestine and, after the pogroms and massacres that accompanied Russia’s collapse, went into exile or were crushed by the Soviets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
And on top of that, there have been high levels of emigration and low immigration.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
Prices are ticking up, and brokers are getting busier as something stirs Cuba's real estate market, long battered by sanctions, recession and mass emigration.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 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
Applying his “worldwide rate of dental microevolution” to the three migrations, Turner came up with roughly similar dates of emigration.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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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
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These emigrations were most numerous after the year 1550, when several Bibles, which had been printed in the Spanish language in the Low Countries, were prohibited as containing the opinions of the new heretics.
From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Llorente, Juan Antonio
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