emigration
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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
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
But recent scholarship has exploded this pretense and identified hundreds of anonymous tracts and articles that Paine seems to have written in the years before his emigration to America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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
It may have been that they were weak people, ill suited for the rigors of emigration, its humiliations and compromises, its competing demands of self-discipline and adventurousness.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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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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The Arabs are the agriculturists of the country, and are for the most part emigrations from the original stock in Sahara.
From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by Jackson, James Grey
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