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
Pick the Right Dates Book 12- to 18-months out for migration seasons, and consider shoulder months.
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Karin Jones, Travel + Leisure, 4 Sep. 2025
At the end of each summer, the monarchs are tagged and released to track population change ahead of their annual migration to central Mexico.
—Alyssa N. Salcedo, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Which means hummingbirds are still fattening themselves up for their migration across the Gulf of Mexico.
—Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 4 Sep. 2025
Even in 2021, when COVID-era travel restrictions were firmly in place, net migration was still just under 400,000.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
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Karin Jones, Travel + Leisure, 4 Sep. 2025
At the end of each summer, the monarchs are tagged and released to track population change ahead of their annual migration to central Mexico.
—Alyssa N. Salcedo, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Which means hummingbirds are still fattening themselves up for their migration across the Gulf of Mexico.
—Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 4 Sep. 2025
Even in 2021, when COVID-era travel restrictions were firmly in place, net migration was still just under 400,000.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for migration
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The images, posted on X by David Albright of the Institute for Science and International Security, a Washington think tank, show the relocation of nearly two dozen large chillers once used to regulate centrifuge operations.—
Amir Daftari,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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Tuberville and others continued to push for the relocation, though.—
Zac Anderson,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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Nikola’s children leave the country to find work in Germany — this new rural-to-urban migration encourages emigration outright.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
29 Aug. 2025
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Netanyahu has said Gaza’s population should be relocated to other countries through what his government has described as voluntary emigration.—
Nicole Winfield,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Aug. 2025
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“Migration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/migration. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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