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  • noun Plural form of exodus.

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Examples

  • As for mass exoduses like the one at Chipotle, Does that improve wages for U.S. workers during a difficult recession?

    Chipotle, Undocumented Workers, And The Trouble With 'Enforcement-Only' Immigration 2011

  • With all this, one would think that developed countries would have devoted greater resources to tackle water insufficiency and deficient sanitation at their source, rather than executing costly reactive rescue missions to deal with the epidemics, famines, refugee crises, and mass exoduses that are their consequences.

    H. David Nahai: The Global Water Crisis H. David Nahai 2011

  • The bleak post-9/11 climate of New York City caused plenty of exoduses then -- still, most people stuck to this side of the ocean.

    Miles Marshall Lewis: Why I Left Paris Miles Marshall Lewis 2011

  • Every day there are reports of accidents, bankruptcies, wars and starvation, the threat of nuclear bombs, the rise of dictatorships, mass exoduses of boys and girls, men and women from battle-torn states, whole villages that now carry the status “displaced” because of natural and man-made disasters.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • Every day there are reports of accidents, bankruptcies, wars and starvation, the threat of nuclear bombs, the rise of dictatorships, mass exoduses of boys and girls, men and women from battle-torn states, whole villages that now carry the status “displaced” because of natural and man-made disasters.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • That would mark one of Mexico's largest single exoduses in decades.

    Cartel Wars Gut Juárez, a Onetime Boom Town Nicholas Casey 2010

  • That would mark one of Mexico's largest single exoduses in decades.

    Cartel Wars Gut Juárez, a Onetime Boom Town Nicholas Casey 2010

  • Every day there are reports of accidents, bankruptcies, wars and starvation, the threat of nuclear bombs, the rise of dictatorships, mass exoduses of boys and girls, men and women from battle-torn states, whole villages that now carry the status “displaced” because of natural and man-made disasters.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • That would mark one of Mexico's largest single exoduses in decades.

    Cartel Wars Gut Juárez, a Onetime Boom Town Nicholas Casey 2010

  • This will not only lead to mass exoduses from all coastlines.

    Kevin Grandia: Climate Change A Bigger Threat To Canadians Than Terrorists 2010

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