emigrate
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She doesn't want to emigrate like the millions who have fled Venezuela's economic crisis but longs for political and economic reform, saying everything is "too expensive", education is a "privilege", and non-exploitative jobs are rare.
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026
Memories are still acute of a record 130,000 percent year-on-year rise in prices recorded in 2018, the peak of the hyperinflationary period, which pushed millions to emigrate.
From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026
By 1939, Hungary’s crackdown against Jews—and Senesh’s emerging identity as a Zionist—led her to emigrate to the British Mandate for Palestine.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025
Madees Khoury, the general manager of Taybeh Brewing Co., is one of those who choose to stay in town, though she knows at least one family gearing up to emigrate in the coming weeks.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025
Many Jews wanted to leave Germany, but they couldn’t afford to emigrate, especially when they had large families.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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