migration

Example Sentences

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The McCloud’s salmon, trucked around Lake Shasta to complete their ocean migration, have started to come back.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

“The job market is really slow. So the No. 1 driver for migration between metro areas is affordability.”

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

These data quantify the massive wealth transfer from high-tax to low-tax states due to interstate migration.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The countries that are party to the CMS are legally obliged to protect species listed as at risk of extinction, conserve and restore their habitats, prevent obstacles to migration and cooperate with other range states.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

I was sure that she had suddenly taken off on the migration; my heart was sore and pounding.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George