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migrate

[mahy-grayt] / ˈmaɪ greɪt /


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Another challenge also looms: federal regulations aimed at protecting endangered North Atlantic right whales, which migrate along the East Coast and risk entanglement in the vertical lines from lobster traps to surface buoys.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

And in a country where millions migrate to cities in search of work, unsanctioned living spaces could be the only way to find a place to stay.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Four weeks later, the swarm has continued to migrate upwards.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

“This is likely the lowest risk option and still has meaningful runway, particularly as more dollars migrate into retail media networks and advertisers focus more on driving performance,” the analysts said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

Geese and other birds back home migrate for the winter, and I liked catching a glimpse of them traveling in their flying vees, but it was nothing like this.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

If two decades on those dance floors taught me anything, it is that the room always migrates.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

When temperatures hit freezing, the northern jet set reliably migrates to St. Barts, a little slice of France in the Caribbean.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026

Some music insiders now hope that migrates over to music video sets.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2025

If left untreated, it typically migrates through the optic nerve to the brain, eventually metastasizing and taking the life of the child.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025

“It’s not true, you know? What they say about the eyes. You lose one, the vision migrates to the other? At least it hasn’t happened yet.”

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

This part of the American Midwest was hit badly by last century's de-industrialisation, when those laid off from its once prolific factories sought work on the coasts or migrated to warmer, southern states.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

One caveat: So much former junk-bond issuance has migrated to private credit that the signal may now be more muffled.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Over tens of millions of years, the giant cliff system would have gradually migrated inland as erosion wore it down.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026

When regulators shut down some offending WeChat accounts, the operators simply migrated to other platforms such as Douyin, Banyuetan said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

As a result, many researchers believe the Irukandji has migrated far beyond its native Australia.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin

Even so, as FactSet’s Kashner points out, money has been migrating out of more-expensive ETFs into cheaper ones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The number of migrating birds in the rice belt has plummeted by 80 percent in the last 15 years, she said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

His first feature, 2002’s “Occident,” was a bittersweet slice of life about struggling Romanians considering migrating west to find happiness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

But this one appears to be migrating ever so slightly upwards.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

The following spring the migrating robins began to return to the campus as usual.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson


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