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diaspora

[dahy-as-per-uh, dee-] / daɪˈæs pər ə, di- /
NOUN
the spreading out of a group of people
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Who else would willingly tackle the most deeply contentious foods of the entirety of the Jewish diaspora?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

She and Zihan were among some 500 people - mostly Chinese diaspora - who piled into an auditorium recently in Singapore.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Anthropic reported this month that it had disrupted a Chinese-government-aligned operation using artificial intelligence to investigate religious leaders and diaspora communities abroad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Tibetans were targeted alongside Catholic leaders across Asia, Taiwanese Christians, Falun Gong practitioners and other religious and diaspora communities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

The black diaspora was not just our own world but, in so many ways, the Western world itself.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Almost overnight, a player from a country with the world’s 13th-largest population of about 113 million but with almost no professional tennis tradition is carrying one of the globe’s biggest diasporas from tournament to tournament.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

In the 19th and 20th centuries, it helped the city become a bustling metropolis, home to sizable European diasporas and a distinct cosmopolitan culture.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

The move hits at the heart of Minnesota’s Somali-American community, one of the largest Somali diasporas in the country.

From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2025

The tactics employed by governments to police their diasporas abroad are known as transnational repression.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2023

Money brokers are part of large Chinese diasporas in places like Europe, the United States and Latin America.

From Reuters ● Apr. 6, 2023


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