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relocate

[ree-loh-keyt, ree-loh-keyt] / riˈloʊ keɪt, ˌri loʊˈkeɪt /


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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Sussex are planning to relocate from the US and move back to the UK later this month.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

The job cuts include about 120 technology workers who declined to relocate to Nashville and 104 employees in coffeehouse design and development.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

Denizens of La Guaira also express fears that they will be forced to relocate far from a place where they have deep roots.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

“She’s All That” star Tamara Mello and her husband, Emmy Award-winning TV editor Paolo Cascardo, are parting ways with their thoughtfully restored Los Angeles home—as they prepare to relocate across the country to Florida.

From MarketWatch Aug. 13, 2026

He had been approached by a man named Komo, who was representing a squatter camp outside of Johannesburg that the government was seeking to relocate.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

This family drama, his latest “Yellowstone” spinoff, stars Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell, Matthew Fox and Patrick J. Adams in the story of a New York clan that relocates to a Montana river valley.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 8, 2026

Qiu's research suggests pollution is shifting west as heavy industry relocates to regions like Xinjiang, and that some cities in China have seen double-digit percentage increases in PM2.5 in the last five years.

From Barron's Feb. 17, 2026

Ghost of Yōtei relocates the action a few hundred miles north, to the Honshū region, and the setting a few hundred years later, to 1603.

From BBC Oct. 3, 2025

In Paris, a public-private partnership, SEM Paris Commerces, relocates small businesses to empty storefronts, cultivating commercial strips that are far more interesting for strolling than scrolling.

From Slate Nov. 26, 2024

General Douglas MacArthur, the officer in charge of the United States Army Forces in the Far East, abandons his home in Manila and relocates to the fortified island of Corregidor.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

On Saturday in Carmel, Ind., emergency officials relocated about 40 residents from their homes amid flooding and helped move residents and staff from a senior living facility, Mayor Sue Finkam said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

Aparcedo and her family spent three years in a shelter following the floods before being relocated to a public housing project — which toppled in the June earthquake.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

Residents, along with other small villages including Middle Hambleton, were relocated to other areas before the buildings were demolished and the area flooded in the 1970s to create the reservoir.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

Manus' trajectory shifted abruptly in mid-2025, when the firm laid off dozens of staff in Beijing and Wuhan and relocated core personnel to Singapore.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

Progress on the atomic pile gave reason for optimism, but Fermi—unhappily relocated to Chicago on Compton’s orders—was still building only prototypes.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, and their children, are planning on relocating back to the UK from the US later this month.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

We love our 10-acre farmstead, but also often talk about moving outside the U.S. or relocating somewhere stateside, but don’t know if we can afford that.

From MarketWatch Aug. 11, 2026

Despite the suffering and challenges of relocating his hives to an unfamiliar landscape, Al-Dabba said he found "hope after seeing the bees coexist and adapt".

From Barron's Aug. 7, 2026

Specht, 36, said he took the written test in January after relocating to Sacramento from Chicago.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2026

Formerly, when the subject of relocating came up, Royal told Cora he favored Canada over the west.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead




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