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emigration

[em-i-grey-shuhn] / ˌɛm ɪˈgreɪ ʃən /


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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

In her April 8 speech, Ms. Rodriguez acknowledged the economic collapse that led to the mass emigration of both the Venezuelan professional class and the poor.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 19, 2026

Some people say they've resorted to fibbing about illnesses, emigration or even prison sentences so the company will stop trying to keep them signed up.

From BBC Apr. 2, 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

The Nazis struck the final blow to Jewish emigration in 1941 when they forbade Jews between the ages of eighteen and forty-five to emigrate.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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

The number of Catholics was greatly increased by numerous emigrations, specially from Ireland and Catholic Germany.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.




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