as in emigrations
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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 diasporas
Almost overnight, a player from a country with the world’s 13th-largest population of about 113 million but with almost no professional tennis tradition is carrying one of the globe’s biggest diasporas from tournament to tournament.
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Douglas Robson,
Los Angeles Times,
30 June 2026
For a country like Japan or Germany, with deep trade ties, large diasporas and decades of institutional relationship-building, social sentiment is one input among many.
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Frank Ahrens,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
There’s an image of New York City, calcified in film, memoir, and newsprint, of a city built on a foundation of scruffy subcultures, especially those communities grounded in the city’s hundreds of distinct diasporas.
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Kat Chen,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Apr. 2026
Media produced for and by diasporas – people displaced from their country of origin by choice or force – is a good source for contextualized and expert information about conflicts in their country of origin.
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Andrea Hickerson,
The Conversation,
19 Mar. 2026
Connecticut is home to more than 100,000 Muslims from different diasporas, as well as recent arrivals from the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia, united by the religion of Islam.
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Mariana Navarrete Villegas,
Hartford Courant,
30 Jan. 2026
Other tribes—typically large ones with substantial diasporas—have also been cleaning their enrollment records, less to hoard money than to mitigate tribal anxieties about acculturation.
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David Treuer,
The Atlantic,
13 Jan. 2026
Chinese has the highest number of native speakers out of all languages worldwide, and is used from Hong Kong to Taiwan to Chinese-speaking diasporas.
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Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
26 Dec. 2025
The neighboring islands, and their diasporas in the United States, compete over just about everything.
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Raquel Reichard,
Refinery29,
24 Nov. 2025
Douglas Robson,
Los Angeles Times,
30 June 2026
For a country like Japan or Germany, with deep trade ties, large diasporas and decades of institutional relationship-building, social sentiment is one input among many.
—
Frank Ahrens,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
There’s an image of New York City, calcified in film, memoir, and newsprint, of a city built on a foundation of scruffy subcultures, especially those communities grounded in the city’s hundreds of distinct diasporas.
—
Kat Chen,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Apr. 2026
Media produced for and by diasporas – people displaced from their country of origin by choice or force – is a good source for contextualized and expert information about conflicts in their country of origin.
—
Andrea Hickerson,
The Conversation,
19 Mar. 2026
Connecticut is home to more than 100,000 Muslims from different diasporas, as well as recent arrivals from the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia, united by the religion of Islam.
—
Mariana Navarrete Villegas,
Hartford Courant,
30 Jan. 2026
Other tribes—typically large ones with substantial diasporas—have also been cleaning their enrollment records, less to hoard money than to mitigate tribal anxieties about acculturation.
—
David Treuer,
The Atlantic,
13 Jan. 2026
Chinese has the highest number of native speakers out of all languages worldwide, and is used from Hong Kong to Taiwan to Chinese-speaking diasporas.
—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
26 Dec. 2025
The neighboring islands, and their diasporas in the United States, compete over just about everything.
—
Raquel Reichard,
Refinery29,
24 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for diasporas
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The cities get quieter, the exoduses take place, and the publishing output slows to an almost complete halt.
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The fire has prompted numerous evacuations in the area, including the complete evacuation of the town of Eureka, which has a population of just over 600.
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The findings further said that procedures for the evacuations of cabins due to flooding were not reviewed with camp staff and counselors and that the campers were not instructed on how a flood evacuation would happen — making quick-thinking emergency decisions all the more difficult.
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“Diasporas.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diasporas. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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