emigration
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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
As African economies and incomes grow in the coming decades, emigration to the U.S. will increase as more people can afford to move.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
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
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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You may recollect I pointed out to you, Gentlemen, in the opening of these lectures, the course which the pastoral tribes, or nomads as they are often called, must necessarily take in their emigrations.
From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by John Henry Newman
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