migrate
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They camped out in Churchill, Manitoba, along the Hudson Bay, where hundreds of polar bears migrate each winter, to capture their increasing encroachment into human communities.
From Los Angeles Times β Nov. 6, 2026
Another challenge also looms: federal regulations aimed at protecting endangered North Atlantic right whales, which migrate along the East Coast and risk entanglement in the vertical lines from lobster traps to surface buoys.
From Barron's β Oct. 24, 2026
For the nightjar, that means combining the ability to migrate across continents with the agility required to hunt insects at low speeds.
From Science Daily β Oct. 17, 2026
And in a country where millions migrate to cities in search of work, unsanctioned living spaces could be the only way to find a place to stay.
From BBC β Sep. 27, 2026
I feel my heartbeat in my face, like my heart has detached from its moorings in my chest and begun to migrate to my brain.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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"The sea arch will eventually crumble into the sea. However, others will replace it as the cliff slowly migrates inland."
From BBC β Oct. 2, 2026
Eastward-shifting ocean evaporation generates warm air that rises into the atmosphere and then migrates north and east, gathering speed and feeding into the subtropical jet stream.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 18, 2026
If two decades on those dance floors taught me anything, it is that the room always migrates.
From Salon β Sep. 6, 2026
If left untreated, it typically migrates through the optic nerve to the brain, eventually metastasizing and taking the life of the child.
From Los Angeles Times β Mar. 6, 2025
Everyone around us migrates toward the back of the room.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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The exhibition ends with images from the late 1800s and early 1900s, documenting life once many African Americans had migrated north in the wake of the Civil War to seek new lives.
From Barron's β Nov. 1, 2026
By the mid-20th century, this inherited relationship with the macabre migrated from home altars and rural folk traditions into the pavement of urban youth cultures.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 28, 2026
That’s down from 158 commercials across 16 games three years ago, before a matchup in the sample migrated to streaming.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 27, 2026
This part of the American Midwest was hit badly by last century's de-industrialisation, when those laid off from its once prolific factories sought work on the coasts or migrated to warmer, southern states.
From BBC β Oct. 21, 2026
When roaming bands of Sapiens foragers migrated into colder climates, they learned to make snowshoes and effective thermal clothing composed of layers of furs and skins, sewn together tightly with the help of needles.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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This arrangement allows researchers to control precisely when cancer cells begin migrating while observing how their nuclei change shape as they move through confined spaces.
From Science Daily β Oct. 24, 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 β Oct. 12, 2026
Argon agents are also migrating C/C++ codebases to Rust across Google.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 1, 2026
Hayes said consumers had stopped absorbing price increases and were migrating to the biggest and cheapest stores as they hunted for deals and tried to manage higher costs of living.
From MarketWatch β Aug. 21, 2026
Outside, horses graze in a meadow, migrating birds dip and rise in perfect formation.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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