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
The model was discussed less like a chatbot and more like a working engine for long software jobs, deep research, code migrations and multi-step reasoning.
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Ron Schmelzer,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
What followed was one of the largest mass migrations in American history.
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Andre Byik,
USA Today,
29 June 2026
The experience is nothing like a trip to see the Serengeti-Maasai Mara migrations, which can draw up to 700,000 people a year.
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Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
22 June 2026
Though more commonly associated with their long migrations from Alaska to Hawaii or showing off for whale watchers off the coast of New England, a unique population of humpback whales call the Arabian Sea home.
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Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
19 June 2026
These migrations led to the formation of the asteroid belt and the Kuiper belt, and ejected trillions of bodies into the wide orbits of the Oort Cloud.
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Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
19 June 2026
Even before the pandemic and prior to the more recent wealth migrations, PS started looking at Miami.
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Miami Herald,
18 June 2026
Idaho salmon in particular undertake one of the most difficult migrations in the country to spawn.
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Idaho Statesman,
12 June 2026
Anthropic said the feature can carry out codebase-scale migrations involving hundreds of thousands of lines of code while checking outputs against existing test suites before reporting results back to users.
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Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
28 May 2026
Ron Schmelzer,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
What followed was one of the largest mass migrations in American history.
—
Andre Byik,
USA Today,
29 June 2026
The experience is nothing like a trip to see the Serengeti-Maasai Mara migrations, which can draw up to 700,000 people a year.
—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
22 June 2026
Though more commonly associated with their long migrations from Alaska to Hawaii or showing off for whale watchers off the coast of New England, a unique population of humpback whales call the Arabian Sea home.
—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
19 June 2026
These migrations led to the formation of the asteroid belt and the Kuiper belt, and ejected trillions of bodies into the wide orbits of the Oort Cloud.
—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
19 June 2026
Even before the pandemic and prior to the more recent wealth migrations, PS started looking at Miami.
—
Miami Herald,
18 June 2026
Idaho salmon in particular undertake one of the most difficult migrations in the country to spawn.
—
Idaho Statesman,
12 June 2026
Anthropic said the feature can carry out codebase-scale migrations involving hundreds of thousands of lines of code while checking outputs against existing test suites before reporting results back to users.
—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
28 May 2026
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“Migrations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/migrations. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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