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emigration

[em-i-grey-shuhn] / ˌɛm ɪˈgreɪ ʃən /


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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

When they left, they would have become part of the wave of mass emigration that saw more than one million people sail from the island.

From BBC Jun. 14, 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

As far as Desdemona was concerned, death was only another kind of emigration.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

We may derive special advantages from it, as it will, probably, augment the emigrations of that most useful class of men, the peasants of Germany, into America.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII by Sparks, Jared




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