diaspora

noun

Definition of diasporanext
as in emigration
formal a group of people who live outside the area in which they had lived for a long time or in which their ancestors lived
—usually singular the art of the African diaspora

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Recent Examples of diaspora Longstanding cultural, commercial and diaspora connections reinforce the relationship. — Panorama Media Ltd, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026 Chime Asonye founded Nigerian Mental Health, a network advancing mental health policy and disability inclusion in Nigeria and across its diaspora. — Vanessa Andersen, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026 The biggest diaspora wave arrived as families fled the Iranian Revolution in 1979. — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026 The effort comes as the community remembers the wound the attacks left on New York City's Jewish diaspora thousands of miles away. — Hannah Kliger, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for diaspora
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  1. emigration
  2. exodus
  3. evacuation
Noun
  • The rate of emigration by physicians has nearly doubled since the twenty-tens.
    — Daniel Brook, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Advertisement Since 2023, Israel has seen record levels of emigration and growing international isolation.
    — Dahlia Scheindlin, Time, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of emigration
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  • Trump’s decimation of the federal bureaucracy, which included cutting thousands of jobs at the State Department, has triggered an unprecedented exodus from the Foreign Service.
    — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Since a mass mobilization drive in 2022, which sparked a panicked exodus across its borders, Russia has relied mostly on large financial incentives to lure soldiers to fight.
    — Clare Sebastian, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of exodus
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  • Residents in low-lying and flood prone areas along the San Juan, Rio Blanco, Navajo, and Piedra Rivers are under a mandatory evacuation order.
    — Libby Smith, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
  • While firefighters were searching for the Trotters’ children, a senior disaster recovery official named Jeremy Klass sent a message asking if horses needed evacuation.
    — Abe Streep, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of evacuation

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