as in relocation
the act of moving or being moved out of one place and into another
The family spent months planning their migration to a new country.
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Recent Examples of migration
Romane replays specific rituals and stories that also transcend borders, addressing questions around migration and exile.
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Vogue, 11 Aug. 2025
Monarch butterflies also make a stop in October during their migration.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2025
Optimizing cost is the No. 1 priority for executives looking to undertake a cloud migration, according to the inaugural Forbes Research Enterprise Technology Purchasing Survey, which was released earlier this year.
—Forbes Research, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Democrats have recently shied away from the issue, because, during the late Biden era, the public largely distrusted them to manage migration.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2025
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Vogue, 11 Aug. 2025
Monarch butterflies also make a stop in October during their migration.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2025
Optimizing cost is the No. 1 priority for executives looking to undertake a cloud migration, according to the inaugural Forbes Research Enterprise Technology Purchasing Survey, which was released earlier this year.
—Forbes Research, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Democrats have recently shied away from the issue, because, during the late Biden era, the public largely distrusted them to manage migration.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for migration
emigration
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For decades, the country has struggled under deeply adverse demographics, with deaths outpacing births and successive waves of mass emigration.—
Ilan Berman,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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The costs of emigration have gone down, and the rewards of it have become all the more apparent.—
The Editors,
National Review,
21 July 2025
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“Migration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/migration. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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