- present participle of migrate.
migrating
Example Sentences
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The number of migrating birds in the rice belt has plummeted by 80 percent in the last 15 years, she said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
Liz and I are among the roughly 25% of migrating boomers planning to downsize.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
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
That is in part because his mother, from southern Taiwan, is Hakka, a people that began migrating from the mainland as early as the 17th century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Some of the men worried that the penguins would all disappear one day, migrating off the island that the men had begun to call Hell-ephan Island.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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