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migrate

[mahy-greyt] / ˈmaΙͺ greΙͺt /


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“New-vehicle sales in July were lower year over year by 1.5% and mostly flat compared to June, as the market slowed, and buyers continued to migrate to lower-priced vehicles,” Kelley Blue Book added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

"Mosquitoes can migrate with the wind, so it depends on the geography of the environment."

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

Salmon also suffered, partly because drought had affected inland rivers, where Chinook and Coho migrate to spawn, eggs hatch, and salmon fry swim back downstream to the ocean.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

They are expected to leave the South Lakeland nature reserve in September and migrate to the Iberian Peninsula or West Africa.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

I want to open my mouth and let my feelings escape like birds, let them migrate forever.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat

Harmon alerted stakeholders, including Aiello, who was immediately concerned about how the wire might affect a herd of bighorn sheep that migrates across the border.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

When temperatures hit freezing, the northern jet set reliably migrates to St. Barts, a little slice of France in the Caribbean.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026

The northern population stays in the high Andes year-round while the southern population migrates from sea level up to 14,000 feet for the nonbreeding months.

From Science Daily ● May 13, 2024

Adichie’s novel stretches across three continents and charts the lives of the secondary-school lovers Ifemelu, who migrates to the United States, and Obinze, who heads to Britain.

From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2024

But exactly when a flock migrates is up to its members.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

The results suggest that the local population shrank dramatically before new groups migrated north and settled in the region.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026

Since rates are still so much lower in Japan than elsewhere, lots of local savings have migrated abroad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

Even those whose families migrated here seeking a “better life” can speak to how uneven the American dream materializes across class, race and country of origin.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026

Corporate customers have reeled at the real costs of AI, which they discovered after Anthropic and other firms migrated from flat subscription fees to “per-token” fees, which charge by usage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

Perhaps their distinctive external appearance involves relatively few genes that arose through sexual selection after they migrated from mainland Asia and became isolated on the Japanese archipelago.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Costs are migrating from ratepayers toward the companies using the power.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

Without that protected region, migrating moons could not survive inside Saturn's disk.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026

As the industry boomed, birds migrating to and from Africa along one of Europe's key flyways were increasingly drawn to the area; today it is internationally recognised as a vital wetland.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

Pro sports began migrating from “free” broadcast TV to basic cable decades ago, marking the first time viewers had to pay to see them play.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

She found the longitude of the Atlantic flyway, the migrating route of the birds of the east, and the magnetic field of the earth.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George




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