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Which word shares an ancient root with the word migrate?

migrate

[mahy-grayt] / ˈmaɪ greɪt /


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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 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

The perennial problem with horror, even contemporary horror, is that it’s an extremely difficult genre to migrate from.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

“I do not think that is a good idea. I think you should migrate with the flock.”

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown

"The sea arch will eventually crumble into the sea. However, others will replace it as the cliff slowly migrates inland."

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

While Major League Soccer, the highest professional league in the U.S., is growing in popularity, top soccer talent generally migrates to European soccer leagues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 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 ● Mar. 6, 2025

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

Derenoncourt has found that Black Americans who migrated north to growing cities in the 20th century achieved economic gains—but their descendants experienced increasing school segregation and incarceration rates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 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

Versant is aiming to wean itself off of the pay-TV business due to the decline in subscribers who have migrated to streaming video.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

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

Only seventy million years ago their ancestors were carnivorous mammals who migrated in slow steps from the land into the ocean.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

The survey found that 61% of crypto users view digital currencies primarily as a speculative tool or a way to make quick money, underscoring how risk-seeking investors are steadily migrating to prediction-markets platforms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 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 ● Aug. 21, 2026

"It also raises the question as to whether the helpful gains from more higher income shoppers migrating to Walmart are starting to fade," he wrote.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Showers are expected to ease from the north during the morning, migrating southwards into other parts of Wales as well as central and southern England where a few downpours could still be heavy and thundery.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

They were down from Alaska and Canada, migrating ahead of a cold front.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George




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