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It says these mass influxes put pressure on local resources and sometimes exacerbate community tensions and prejudices.

From Barron's • Oct. 20, 2025

In fact, more than a million arrived, and stayed, by the end of the decade - one of the biggest influxes of people in British history.

From BBC • May 21, 2025

Havilah joins the likes of Paradise and Greenville, small communities that saw influxes of prospectors, followed by population exodus and, more recently, devastation.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2024

And staying overnight in the mountains is prohibitive, as upscale developments and influxes of out-of-towners have sent lodging and housing prices into the stratosphere.

From Slate • Dec. 20, 2023

The Bodleian started with a collection which had cost Sir Thomas Bodley £10,000, and it was augmented from time to time by the absorption of tributary influxes of the same kind.

From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by Burton, John Hill