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migrate

[mahy-greyt] / ˈmaΙͺ greΙͺt /


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Under that model, immune cells from elsewhere in the body were not expected to migrate into the brain and become part of this population.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026

“New-vehicle sales in July were lower year over year by 1.5% and mostly flat compared to June, as the market slowed, and buyers continued to migrate to lower-priced vehicles,” Kelley Blue Book added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

But with few barriers to entry, the sector still attracts many workers who migrate from rural areas to cities in search of opportunity, often juggling jobs across several households in a day.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

West Cumbria Rivers Trust is dismantling a redundant weir at Glinger Burn near Longtown to help the eel and other fish migrate up and down the river more easily.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

I want to be going away with Brian, like on a plane to the Serengeti to watch the blue wildebeests migrate.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

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

Some music insiders now hope that migrates over to music video sets.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2025

The two meet when the young man, Sujo, migrates from a small village in the state of Michoacán to Mexico City.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024

The population of bowhead whales that migrates between the Bering and Beaufort Seas each year is a conservation success story, with today's population nearing -- if not exceeding -- pre-commercial whaling numbers.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 21, 2024

“A whale migrates but it doesn’t have a home.”

From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen

Over tens of millions of years, the giant cliff system would have gradually migrated inland as erosion wore it down.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 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

Still, the idea of using light spycraft to more honestly assess a plate of pasta has such obvious dramatic pull that it makes sense it eventually migrated to food television.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

Since rates are still so much lower in Japan than elsewhere, lots of local savings have migrated abroad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

The truck was under five feet of water and had migrated half a block.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

"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

As a teenager in 1992, Lobga joined an outflow of Tibetans migrating to India, which involves a dangerous monthlong trek across the Himalayas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

When migrating human populations entered unfamiliar environments, genes inherited from other hominins may have helped them respond to new diseases, climates, or foods.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026

A lemming screamed in death, and a flock of migrating eider ducks called out their positions to each other.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George




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