as in relocated
to move from one place to another
Every fall, hundreds of college students migrate to this town.
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Recent Examples of migrated
After the partition of India in 1947, many refugees from the Punjab region in current-day Pakistan migrated to the city and settled there.
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Laura Payne, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 May 2026
It’s migrated over the past five decades from retreat centers to protest placards to TED Talk stages to your aunt’s Facebook page, becoming a kind of moral koan.
—Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
But, after the couple retired and migrated south to Mexico City, Hurst dove back into photography with gusto, until his death, from cancer, in 2023.
—Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2026
After decades of discourse about how the American public’s attention has migrated away from the movies and onto TV screens, the cultural Zeitgeist seemed to exist solidly at the movies.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2026
During the 2024 to 2025 spawning season, more than 30,000 adult coho salmon migrated to the rivers along the Mendocino Coasts – double the record-breaking number of 15,000 seen in the previous season, according to NOAA Fisheries.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026
In 2020, roughly 11 million Africans reportedly migrated to Europe, 5 million to Asia and 3 million to Northern America.
—Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2026
My weekly processing of the past eventually migrated to another building when my therapist moved her practice to a house rezoned for offices in a residential neighborhood.
—Wendy C. Ortiz, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026
As cellular features have migrated to data networks, DNS has become a core part of how phones work.
—ArsTechnica, 13 Apr. 2026
Laura Payne, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 May 2026
It’s migrated over the past five decades from retreat centers to protest placards to TED Talk stages to your aunt’s Facebook page, becoming a kind of moral koan.
—Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
But, after the couple retired and migrated south to Mexico City, Hurst dove back into photography with gusto, until his death, from cancer, in 2023.
—Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2026
After decades of discourse about how the American public’s attention has migrated away from the movies and onto TV screens, the cultural Zeitgeist seemed to exist solidly at the movies.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2026
During the 2024 to 2025 spawning season, more than 30,000 adult coho salmon migrated to the rivers along the Mendocino Coasts – double the record-breaking number of 15,000 seen in the previous season, according to NOAA Fisheries.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026
In 2020, roughly 11 million Africans reportedly migrated to Europe, 5 million to Asia and 3 million to Northern America.
—Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2026
My weekly processing of the past eventually migrated to another building when my therapist moved her practice to a house rezoned for offices in a residential neighborhood.
—Wendy C. Ortiz, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026
As cellular features have migrated to data networks, DNS has become a core part of how phones work.
—ArsTechnica, 13 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for migrated
relocated
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Hometown’s plan is to find more opportunities like that, Garber said, where Next Pro teams can be both rebranded and relocated to reach new communities of soccer fans.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
30 Apr. 2026
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His wife at the time, Jenny Sanford, moved out of the governor’s mansion in Columbia, relocated with their four sons into the family’s beachfront home near Charleston and later sued him for divorce.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
30 Apr. 2026
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