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emigration

[em-i-gray-shuhn] / ˌɛm ɪˈgreɪ ʃən /


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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

Immigration and emigration estimates, external from the ONS are updated twice a year.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Since his emigration, Durov said he has limited his travel to Russia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

In those days it was still possible to buy emigration certificates to Palestine.

From "Night" by Elie Wiesel

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

The need was now felt of clearing up the order and details of these emigrations.

From Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3 Gods and Goddesses of the Northland by Ph.D.


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