as in relocations
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 migrations
Anthropic said the feature can carry out codebase-scale migrations involving hundreds of thousands of lines of code while checking outputs against existing test suites before reporting results back to users.
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Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 May 2026
That's a wave of migrations, and most of them are running with the same governance gap.
—Liam Dunne, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
Over centuries, a series of migrations and innovations transformed beekeeping from a backyard hobby to a nationwide enterprise.
—Literary Hub, 27 May 2026
Yesterday, while driving my nine-year-old daughter to soccer practice, we once again got caught in one of these celebratory migrations, which prompted her to ask why there was always so much fuss over what amounted to the end of the school year.
—Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 21 May 2026
Even before the pandemic and prior to the more recent wealth migrations, PS started looking at Miami.
—Miami Herald, 19 May 2026
So how are bird enthusiasts able to track these migrations?
—Marta Hill, Scientific American, 13 May 2026
Examples include his pioneering insights on the dispersal of seeds, his anticipation of Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection and his study of the seasonal manifestations of natural phenomena, such as plants’ flowering times and bird migrations.
—Robert M. Thorson, The Conversation, 8 May 2026
Meaningfully, Van Hemert chose a route that follows the northward migrations of birds, the creatures that first sparked her love of science and the wilderness.
—Eva Holland, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2026
Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 May 2026
That's a wave of migrations, and most of them are running with the same governance gap.
—Liam Dunne, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
Over centuries, a series of migrations and innovations transformed beekeeping from a backyard hobby to a nationwide enterprise.
—Literary Hub, 27 May 2026
Yesterday, while driving my nine-year-old daughter to soccer practice, we once again got caught in one of these celebratory migrations, which prompted her to ask why there was always so much fuss over what amounted to the end of the school year.
—Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 21 May 2026
Even before the pandemic and prior to the more recent wealth migrations, PS started looking at Miami.
—Miami Herald, 19 May 2026
So how are bird enthusiasts able to track these migrations?
—Marta Hill, Scientific American, 13 May 2026
Examples include his pioneering insights on the dispersal of seeds, his anticipation of Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection and his study of the seasonal manifestations of natural phenomena, such as plants’ flowering times and bird migrations.
—Robert M. Thorson, The Conversation, 8 May 2026
Meaningfully, Van Hemert chose a route that follows the northward migrations of birds, the creatures that first sparked her love of science and the wilderness.
—Eva Holland, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2026
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“Migrations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/migrations. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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