as in influxes
a flowing or coming in
this affluence of new students is straining an already crowded school system
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influxes
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Largely invisible at the time, especially compared with the vast Italian and Jewish migrations a century earlier, these influxes were ultimately just as transformative.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026 -
Upheavals, repression and economic turmoil under those leaders sometimes produced large influxes of new arrivals.—
Anthony Man,
Sun Sentinel,
10 Jan. 2026
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“Affluences.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/affluences. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.
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