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
Though more commonly associated with their long migrations from Alaska to Hawaii or showing off for whale watchers off the coast of New England, a unique population of humpback whales call the Arabian Sea home.
—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
19 June 2026
Even before the pandemic and prior to the more recent wealth migrations, PS started looking at Miami.
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Miami Herald,
18 June 2026
With remote attacks, employees receive emails concerning invoices or data migrations.
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Gene Marks,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
Idaho salmon in particular undertake one of the most difficult migrations in the country to spawn.
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Idaho Statesman,
12 June 2026
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
Over centuries, a series of migrations and innovations transformed beekeeping from a backyard hobby to a nationwide enterprise.
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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.
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Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
21 May 2026
There are too many other factors influencing migrations, experts say, including weather conditions from year to year and large-scale changes to breeding and nesting habitats.
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Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
24 Mar. 2025
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
19 June 2026
Even before the pandemic and prior to the more recent wealth migrations, PS started looking at Miami.
—
Miami Herald,
18 June 2026
With remote attacks, employees receive emails concerning invoices or data migrations.
—
Gene Marks,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
Idaho salmon in particular undertake one of the most difficult migrations in the country to spawn.
—
Idaho Statesman,
12 June 2026
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.
—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
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
There are too many other factors influencing migrations, experts say, including weather conditions from year to year and large-scale changes to breeding and nesting habitats.
—
Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
24 Mar. 2025
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“Migrations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/migrations. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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