emigration
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Nearly 270,000 Israeli citizens left the country between 2023 and 2025, according to analysis by researchers at Tel Aviv University—the highest three-year emigration total on record.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
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
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
Thus, the linguistic evidence suggests that many tropical crops were added to the Austronesian repertoire after the emigration from Taiwan.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
Joseph Ponten's seven-volume historical novel will trace the emigrations of German minorities abroad, especially in Russia.
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 Juan Antonio Llorente
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