Thesaurus results for MIGRATING

migrating

verb

present participle of migrate

as in relocating

to move from one place to another Every fall, hundreds of college students migrate to this town.

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Recent Examples of migrating Alternative fuel sources saving some money for districts The Council Rock School District in lower Bucks County started migrating to propane back in the 2022-23 school year. — Chilekasi Adele, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026 All the while, the heat coming from the pan is slowly migrating toward the center of the meat, gently cooking it to my goal temperature. — Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026 Japanese laborers had been migrating to Hawaii since the 1890s, mainly to work on sugar plantations. — H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 21 Aug. 2026 Others are considering migrating to Canada, Chile or Brazil, where some moved before coming to the United States, Nampy said. — Chris Kenning, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026 Telecom ultimately cleared the hurdle by migrating from hardware to software, adopting new business models and adapting the regulatory rules that had governed an industry built on landlines. — Anna Demeo, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 Watch thousands of migrating monarch butterflies make their winter home in the trees of Pismo State Beach. — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2026 Across the pond, United Launch Alliance sought to end its dependence on Russian engines for the Atlas V rocket by migrating to the new Vulcan rocket. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 17 Aug. 2026 Carlsbad and other coastal cities south of Oceanside worry that any plan to keep sand on the shoreline north of them would prevent the precious grains of grit from migrating south in ocean currents to land on their own eroding beaches. — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2026

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Meyer Riegger opened a Seoul space in collaboration with Galerie Jocelyn Wolff last year, while Gladstone Gallery is doubling in size and relocating to Hannam-dong ahead of the fairs.

— Payal Uttam, ARTnews.com, 26 Aug. 2026
Newsom and his family did briefly live in California's governor's mansion, which was renovated for former Governor Jerry Brown, before ultimately relocating to the Fair Oaks property.

— Noe Padilla, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026

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Jiwan Jyoti, a US citizen, was traveling with Himalayan Glacier Adventure and Travel Company and has been listed by the group as missing.

— Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026
Go Beyond the 4x4 Of course, traveling by Icelandic truck is part of the thrill, but the adventure extends well beyond the vehicle itself.

— Gwen Nicol, Travel + Leisure, 29 Aug. 2026

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