migrate
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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 β Jul. 22, 2026
They are expected to leave the South Lakeland nature reserve in September and migrate to the Iberian Peninsula or West Africa.
From BBC β Jul. 21, 2026
The new, slimmed-down Comcast will also house the company’s cable operations, which have been bleeding subscribers for years as consumers migrate to digital streaming services.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jun. 30, 2026
However, they can migrate to the ocean and become steelhead, where they typically grow larger before returning to their natal waters to spawn.
From Los Angeles Times β Jun. 9, 2026
And because hummingbears migrate over long distances each year, Duuzuu could never join them.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
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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 β Jun. 23, 2026
Some music insiders now hope that migrates over to music video sets.
From BBC β Jul. 8, 2025
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 β Mar. 6, 2025
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 β Feb. 21, 2024
We separate and Muqtada migrates toward the dining room and the smell of food.
From "Itβs Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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The prevailing theory suggested that blue cones formed in the center of the retina and later migrated outward.
From Science Daily β Jul. 9, 2026
Since rates are still so much lower in Japan than elsewhere, lots of local savings have migrated abroad.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 1, 2026
Even those whose families migrated here seeking a “better life” can speak to how uneven the American dream materializes across class, race and country of origin.
From Salon β Jun. 25, 2026
Corporate customers have reeled at the real costs of AI, which they discovered after Anthropic and other firms migrated from flat subscription fees to “per-token” fees, which charge by usage.
From Los Angeles Times β Jun. 23, 2026
Since all other Niger-Congo speakers, as well as the Bantu, are blacks, we couldn’t have inferred who migrated in which direction just from the evidence of physical anthropology.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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 β Aug. 1, 2026
Costs are migrating from ratepayers toward the companies using the power.
From MarketWatch β Jul. 27, 2026
Scientists believe that the magnitude 6.1 Joshua Tree temblor of April 22, 1992, resulted in aftershocks that kept migrating north.
From Los Angeles Times β Jun. 26, 2026
Officials have said they are investigating if the disease arrived in Australia via birds migrating from the sub-Antarctic.
From Barron's β Jun. 24, 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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