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Which word shares an ancient root with the word migrate?

migrate

[mahy-grayt] / ˈmaΙͺ greΙͺt /


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Four weeks later, the swarm has continued to migrate upwards.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

“This is likely the lowest risk option and still has meaningful runway, particularly as more dollars migrate into retail media networks and advertisers focus more on driving performance,” the analysts said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

But the company wants to create a level playing field in the industry so that teens don’t migrate to competing apps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

But he said he believed this would just "delay the inevitable", so he is "planning to migrate to a similar but less good service".

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

How does a name migrate through the population, and why?

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

The hummingbird hawk moth, known for its furry grey body, orange hindwings and long proboscis, migrates to the UK from southern Europe and north Africa in the summer months.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

The warm air migrates north and east, speeding up as it goes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

If two decades on those dance floors taught me anything, it is that the room always migrates.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

The two meet when the young man, Sujo, migrates from a small village in the state of Michoacán to Mexico City.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024

We separate and Muqtada migrates toward the dining room and the smell of food.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini

Park proponents highlight safety for cyclists and pedestrians, while reopening backers say risks have migrated to other streets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

One caveat: So much former junk-bond issuance has migrated to private credit that the signal may now be more muffled.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Homo erectus, or H.erectus, occupies an important place in human evolutionary history because it was the first species in the genus Homo known to have migrated out of Africa.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

"Our two nations have been connected since 1893," Carney said, referring to a wave of Ukrainians who migrated to the new Canadian nation.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

Using their previously calculated rate of genetic change as a standard, they estimated when the original group had migrated to the Americas: 22,414 to 29,545 years ago.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Even so, as FactSet’s Kashner points out, money has been migrating out of more-expensive ETFs into cheaper ones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The number of migrating birds in the rice belt has plummeted by 80 percent in the last 15 years, she said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

His first feature, 2002’s “Occident,” was a bittersweet slice of life about struggling Romanians considering migrating west to find happiness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

But this one appears to be migrating ever so slightly upwards.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

In early March the first of the migrating falcons and hawks returned to the Catskill Mountains.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George


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