emigration
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Nearly 270,000 Israeli citizens left the country between 2023 and 2025, according to analysis by researchers at Tel Aviv University—the highest three-year emigration total on record.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
A larger Palestinian Christian community lives in the West Bank, although emigration has increased since the start of the war.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
It’s a chance to chill for the people of a nation — once among the richest in Latin America — that has endured more than a decade of economic meltdown, political turmoil and mass emigration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Kilbane added: "To a county decimated with emigration for centuries but always having a love for home. This one is for its people."
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Thus, the linguistic evidence suggests that many tropical crops were added to the Austronesian repertoire after the emigration from Taiwan.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
When deaths and emigrations were totaled and deducted, the group mysteriously gained 170,000 in population.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Few at first, their numbers rapidly increased by new emigrations, and at last Russia conferred upon the Khirghis colony the entire and authenticated possession of about 7,075,700 hectares of land.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
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