emigration
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Its leaders rejected emigration to Palestine and, after the pogroms and massacres that accompanied Russia’s collapse, went into exile or were crushed by the Soviets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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
The first line says "a novel about emigration", with subsequent pages full of stuck in post-it notes of writing.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
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 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
It was sudden climate change on a similar scale, and it resulted in a severe famine in Europe, food riots and mass emigrations.
From Time Magazine Archive
They form the principal population of this terrestrial paradise; they are for the most part emigrations from the Sahara, several centuries ago, and speak the true Arabic language.
From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by Jackson, James Grey
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