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Which word shares an ancient root with the word migrate?

migrate

[mahy-grayt] / ˈmaΙͺ greΙͺt /


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He advises washing new clothes before wearing them, separately so chemicals don’t migrate into other clothes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 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

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

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

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

The high waters along the shoreline had caused some of the animals to migrate inland, deep into the Amazonian rain forest.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

The disease “then sort of migrates up and then west,” Chu said, so the West Coast tends to get the flu last.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

When temperatures hit freezing, the northern jet set reliably migrates to St. Barts, a little slice of France in the Caribbean.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2025

Everyone around us migrates toward the back of the room.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy

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

When regulators shut down some offending WeChat accounts, the operators simply migrated to other platforms such as Douyin, Banyuetan said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 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

But why did this lead Holmes to assume that Indians must have migrated to the Americas in the recent past, a view springing from biblical chronology?

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

His first feature, 2002’s “Occident,” was a bittersweet slice of life about struggling Romanians considering migrating west to find happiness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

The move is the latest example of a traditional television staple migrating to a streaming service.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 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

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

She found the longitude of the Atlantic flyway, the migrating route of the birds of the east, and the magnetic field of the earth.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George




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