migrate

Example Sentences

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In the mid-’40s, he migrated to Chicago and somehow got a job with the great orchestra leader and arranger Fletcher Henderson, but his musical ideas and influence were resisted by Henderson’s band members.

From The Wall Street Journal

Concepts developed to help patients tolerate distress have migrated into policy, where they serve the opposite function.

From The Wall Street Journal

The EU has competing states, too, but they are not bound together by a uniform set of laws, and, because of national identities, households and businesses do not migrate as easily.

From MarketWatch

The cluster of quakes gradually migrated more than 10 kilometers northeast of Santorini.

From Science Daily

There’s precedent for skaters migrating from the ice to the road.

From The Wall Street Journal