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emigration

[em-i-grey-shuhn] / ˌɛm ɪˈgreɪ ʃən /


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Kilbane added: "To a county decimated with emigration for centuries but always having a love for home. This one is for its people."

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

But an equally important part of the story is increasing net emigration by Britons.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 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

In those days it was still possible to buy emigration certificates to Palestine.

From "Night" by Elie Wiesel

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

We have already seen under the head of emigrations how a later sub-race—the Akkadians—in the erection of Stonehenge, reverted to this primitive building of monoliths.

From The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria by Scott-Elliot, W.




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