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
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.
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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
Conservationists celebrated when wolves — which were rendered locally extinct in 1924, the same year that the last grizzly was killed — migrated into the state from Oregon 15 years ago.
—Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 8 Apr. 2026
Last year Microsoft also migrated clock settings, keyboard character repeat delay, mouse cursor blink rate, and formatting for time, number, and currency into the Settings app.
—Tom Warren, The Verge, 8 Apr. 2026
After the Swazi gained control of land almost to Maputo in 1864, the Gaza (under the victorious Mzila) migrated northward into the Buzi River area of present-day eastern Zimbabwe.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
Without an anchor point, the atoms migrated away instead of forming a short circuit, preventing device failure even at extreme temperatures.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Apr. 2026
But the quakes migrated away from Bárðarbunga, and lava eventually gushed out of several fissures in the realm of another volcano, Askja, at a site named Holuhraun, 45 kilometers away.
—Quanta Magazine, 27 Mar. 2026
But in at least one case, speculation about a possible insider trade has migrated to a more traditional market.
—Rob Wile, NBC news, 27 Mar. 2026
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
Conservationists celebrated when wolves — which were rendered locally extinct in 1924, the same year that the last grizzly was killed — migrated into the state from Oregon 15 years ago.
—Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 8 Apr. 2026
Last year Microsoft also migrated clock settings, keyboard character repeat delay, mouse cursor blink rate, and formatting for time, number, and currency into the Settings app.
—Tom Warren, The Verge, 8 Apr. 2026
After the Swazi gained control of land almost to Maputo in 1864, the Gaza (under the victorious Mzila) migrated northward into the Buzi River area of present-day eastern Zimbabwe.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
Without an anchor point, the atoms migrated away instead of forming a short circuit, preventing device failure even at extreme temperatures.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Apr. 2026
But the quakes migrated away from Bárðarbunga, and lava eventually gushed out of several fissures in the realm of another volcano, Askja, at a site named Holuhraun, 45 kilometers away.
—Quanta Magazine, 27 Mar. 2026
But in at least one case, speculation about a possible insider trade has migrated to a more traditional market.
—Rob Wile, NBC news, 27 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for migrated
relocated
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Though young missing-persons detective Dalia (May Calamawy) is earnest in her attempts to help, her superiors cast suspicion on Katie’s parents; eight years later, the girl is still missing, while the family has relocated to New Mexico.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
16 Apr. 2026
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Griffin relocated Citadel’s headquarters from Chicago to Miami in 2022, drawn by Florida’s lack of a personal income tax.—
Catherina Gioino,
Fortune,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Migrated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/migrated. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.
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