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    As the economy improves, will there be another influx, and the inevitable backlash?  (source)
    influx = arrival (of many people)
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    Thousands more floated and flew through the air above, dodging the constant influx of ships.†  (source)
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    As one book, Appalachian Odyssey, notes about the influx of hill people to Detroit: "It was not simply that the Appalachian migrants, as rural strangers 'out of place' in the city, were upsetting to Midwestern, urban whites.†  (source)
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    There was so much money to be made that drug gangs rapidly expanded their ranks, sucking in some of our best friends, and turf wars became deadly, aided by the influx of sophisticated firearms.†  (source)
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    For our continued influxes of feeling are modified and directed by our thoughts, which are indeed the representatives of all our past feelings;†  (source)
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    Whoever usually kept this place ready must not have been prepared for the influx the Selection would cause, because there weren't nearly enough chairs in here.†  (source)
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    Many of the older surfers resented the sudden influx of "kooks" and "gremmies"— names given to pretenders, beginners, or wannabes—as well as the crowding of their surf spots and the intrusion into their simple, relaxed lifestyle.†  (source)
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    The sun is gone and the sky is influx.†  (source)
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    Inside Amity Harbor's courthouse, opposite the courtroom's four tall windows, a table had been set up to accommodate the influx of newspapermen to the island.†  (source)
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    They reacted indifferently to the influx.†  (source)
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    Have these precautions been put in place because of the recent influx of immigrants?†  (source)
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    The summer influx of tourists and vacationers had begun.†  (source)
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    Mike and I took turns mowing all the abandoned foreclosed properties in the complex—heavy rains in the spring had turned yards into jungles, which encouraged an influx of raccoons.†  (source)
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