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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

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

Since his emigration, Durov said he has limited his travel to Russia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

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

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

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

The agricultural prosperity which they soon attained, was quickly known in Greece, whence it occasioned fresh and important emigrations.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell


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