migrates

present tense third-person singular of migrate

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Recent Examples of migrates When a layer is overfunded, value migrates to whoever touches the customer, because everyone else is bidding against nine clones for the same integration. Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026 The child’s arm wraps around the woman’s neck, where the brown of her hair migrates into the pale flesh of his wrist. Carmen Rosenberg-Miller, Artforum, 6 Aug. 2026 The unmissable experience—the thing worth showing up for, worth keeping the ticket stub from—migrates back to wherever scarcity lives. Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 July 2026 When the problem is recast as overmedicalization and the solution as lifestyle, the locus of responsibility migrates. Sunny Patel, STAT, 17 July 2026 There’s the Paunsaugunt Herd, which migrates from near Bryce Canyon National Park down to northern Arizona. Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 16 July 2026 All the chairs are light enough to move around easily, as the group of guests grows and migrates. Rory Evans, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 July 2026 Cocoa butter softens and migrates toward the surface, resulting in fat bloom—the chalky, grayish-white film that appears on chocolate that has been temperature-stressed. Anne Wolf, Martha Stewart, 1 July 2026 Leaving it on too long can leave brows brittle or over-processed, and the skin around the brow bone can react if the formula migrates. Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 30 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for migrates
relocates
Verb
  • In summer, the investment team relocates together out east, in Bridgehampton.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Her grieving father temporarily relocates the family to Donegal, Ireland, which in 1973, as O’Donnell reminds us, was reeling from its very own Troubles.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 25 July 2026

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“Migrates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/migrates. Accessed 12 Aug. 2026.

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