as in migrant
having a way of life that involves moving from one region to another typically on a seasonal basis
most of the apple crop is picked by migratory workers migratory birds heading south for the winter
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For centuries, the area’s Indigenous Yup’ik residents lived a nomadic subsistence lifestyle, timing their seasonal movements with the arrival of migratory birds in spring, fish in summer and the ripening of berries in early fall.
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Emily Schwing, ProPublica, 29 May 2025
Local environmentalists have also sounded the alarm on how the company’s activities at Starbase could increase chemical and sonic pollution that puts migratory birds and other vulnerable endangered species in the area at greater risk.
—Paola Rosa-Aquino, Scientific American, 29 May 2025
No threats to move the franchise to Nashville, Tennessee, or Tampa, Florida, or some other city desperate to lure a migratory sports team.
—David Greising, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2025
In Panama, record numbers of migrants from as far away as Asia and Africa had turned the deadly Darién Gap, a roadless strip of jungle connecting South and Central America, into a migratory thoroughfare over the past decade.
—Whitney Eulich, Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2025
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Emily Schwing, ProPublica, 29 May 2025
Local environmentalists have also sounded the alarm on how the company’s activities at Starbase could increase chemical and sonic pollution that puts migratory birds and other vulnerable endangered species in the area at greater risk.
—Paola Rosa-Aquino, Scientific American, 29 May 2025
No threats to move the franchise to Nashville, Tennessee, or Tampa, Florida, or some other city desperate to lure a migratory sports team.
—David Greising, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2025
In Panama, record numbers of migrants from as far away as Asia and Africa had turned the deadly Darién Gap, a roadless strip of jungle connecting South and Central America, into a migratory thoroughfare over the past decade.
—Whitney Eulich, Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2025
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“Migratory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/migratory. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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