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
Do it weekly during hot weather or when the birdbath is getting a lot of use, such as during seasonal migrations.
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Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 5 Mar. 2026
Genomes contain a wealth of information that geneticists can use to mathematically model human migrations, encounters with other populations and inheritance over thousands of millennia.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 26 Feb. 2026
Caribou mothers complete these extremely long migrations with antlers on their head and a calf in their womb.
—Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2026
While two major migrations happen annually — gray whales move November through April with peaks in February and March and blue whale sightings rise May through November — viewings are possible most days of the year.
—Nora Heston Tarte, Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2026
That changed with migrations to the suburbs and as the game developed in new directions.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 18 Feb. 2026
Food shortages, internal migrations, and overcrowding had already signaled a slippage in imperial power, and created a fertile environment for disease.
—Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2026
Taste is a global force, driving migrations, shifting investments, and dividing us into groups and tribes.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2026
These objects were created through massive collisions and planetary migrations that occurred around the sun billions of years ago, around the same time as Earth's moon was forming.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Jan. 2026
Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 5 Mar. 2026
Genomes contain a wealth of information that geneticists can use to mathematically model human migrations, encounters with other populations and inheritance over thousands of millennia.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 26 Feb. 2026
Caribou mothers complete these extremely long migrations with antlers on their head and a calf in their womb.
—Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2026
While two major migrations happen annually — gray whales move November through April with peaks in February and March and blue whale sightings rise May through November — viewings are possible most days of the year.
—Nora Heston Tarte, Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2026
That changed with migrations to the suburbs and as the game developed in new directions.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 18 Feb. 2026
Food shortages, internal migrations, and overcrowding had already signaled a slippage in imperial power, and created a fertile environment for disease.
—Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2026
Taste is a global force, driving migrations, shifting investments, and dividing us into groups and tribes.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2026
These objects were created through massive collisions and planetary migrations that occurred around the sun billions of years ago, around the same time as Earth's moon was forming.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Jan. 2026
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“Migrations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/migrations. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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