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
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
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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
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
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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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