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migration

noun as in movement to another place

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If they follow through on that intention, that would be a massive migration, and bad news for cities.

From Fortune

Gradually, these climate impacts have encouraged the rural-to-urban migration that is leaving India’s megacities bursting at the seams.

From Quartz

The big question is whether the mass migration will extend to the slow walk in the middle, underwriting.

From Fortune

Budget data from cell phone records, federal aid requests, school enrollments, and other indicators tell a story of mass migration.

From Quartz

Parents and remote workers in search of more space aren’t the only ones who would drive this migration wave.

From Fortune

This “Sixth Migration” of massive human migration to Texas is the larger story of the book, and it is a significant story.

Smart and ambitious, he seemed to epitomize the success of that northern migration experienced by millions of southern blacks.

The great migration to the North through World War II had given black people at least some clout as they began to vote Democratic.

About two years after 9/11, there was this mass migration to New York.

As the economy soured, Californians began to think in terms of limited resources and came to see migration as a zero sum game.

Migration to distant occupations or to foreign lands was but for the adventurous few.

There was probably nothing at that time in atmospheric conditions to check such a migration.

The northward migration of the Pygmies seems to have been accompanied or followed by that of a full grown people.

We now understand how the Phoenicians, whose ancestors arrived in the second Semitic migration, came to call their land “Canaan.”

Thus the Phoenicians and the Amorites belong to the first stage of the second great Arabian migration.

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On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to migration, such as: exodus, flight, journey, movement, shift, and transfer.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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