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
These objects were created through massive collisions and planetary migrations that occurred around the sun billions of years ago, around the same time as Earth's moon was forming.
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Jan. 2026
This means that their impressive migrations have ecological ripple effects that extend beyond the whales’ survival themselves, but also to the survival of other species.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
More than 100 bird species use the area as a rest stop along the Pacific Flyway during their yearly migrations between Alaska and Mexico.
—Walker Armstrong, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2026
One of Maduro’s darkest legacies was the exodus of 8 million Venezuelans during his 13-year rule, one of the largest mass migrations in modern history.
—Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026
Largely invisible at the time, especially compared with the vast Italian and Jewish migrations a century earlier, these influxes were ultimately just as transformative.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
Even mild cases impede monarchs’ ability to fly, and many that are infected fail to complete their long migrations.
—Drew Kann, AJC.com, 12 Jan. 2026
These are the same birds that pass through North Dakota in spectacular migrations every spring and fall.
—Brad Dokken, Twin Cities, 21 Dec. 2025
Decades of migrations, the earth thrumming under their hooves.
—Literary Hub, 15 Dec. 2025
Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Jan. 2026
This means that their impressive migrations have ecological ripple effects that extend beyond the whales’ survival themselves, but also to the survival of other species.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
More than 100 bird species use the area as a rest stop along the Pacific Flyway during their yearly migrations between Alaska and Mexico.
—Walker Armstrong, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2026
One of Maduro’s darkest legacies was the exodus of 8 million Venezuelans during his 13-year rule, one of the largest mass migrations in modern history.
—Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026
Largely invisible at the time, especially compared with the vast Italian and Jewish migrations a century earlier, these influxes were ultimately just as transformative.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
Even mild cases impede monarchs’ ability to fly, and many that are infected fail to complete their long migrations.
—Drew Kann, AJC.com, 12 Jan. 2026
These are the same birds that pass through North Dakota in spectacular migrations every spring and fall.
—Brad Dokken, Twin Cities, 21 Dec. 2025
Decades of migrations, the earth thrumming under their hooves.
—Literary Hub, 15 Dec. 2025
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“Migrations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/migrations. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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