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emigration

[em-i-grey-shuhn] / ˌɛm ɪˈgreɪ ʃən /


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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

Oil-rich Venezuela, a country of 28 million that was long among the wealthiest nations in Latin America, has suffered a decade of economic decline and mass emigration.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 25, 2026

The first line says "a novel about emigration", with subsequent pages full of stuck in post-it notes of writing.

From BBC May 22, 2026

But an equally important part of the story is increasing net emigration by Britons.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

He had resisted all ideas of mass emigration and enforced complete isolation on the warren, thereby almost certainly saving it from extinction.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

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

All of the major emigrations were completed before 1960.

From Area Handbook for Bulgaria by Violeta D. Baluyut




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