migration
noun
mi·gra·tion
mī-ˈgrā-shən 
: the act, process, or an instance of migrating
watched the migration of the birds overhead
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About half of its revenue came from cloud and data-related services, such as cloud migration and building infrastructure for enterprise data collection.
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John Kang, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2025
Methodology For the salmon migration map, tribal fisheries experts provided the Chinook salmon migration route, which was mapped by filtering U.S. Census Bureau TIGER shapefiles for relevant bodies of water along the over 800-mile journey from the Pacific Ocean to the Stibnite site.
—Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 5 Feb. 2025
Their malicious actions are putting the health of people, especially children, at grave risk, and will surely lead to future public health and migration crises in the U.S.—let alone suffering around the globe.
—Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Inspired by the prophet Muhammad’s migration from Mecca to Medina, the system was originally designed as a means of broadening Islamic education in precolonial Nigeria.
—Ogar Monday, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Feb. 2025
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John Kang, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2025
Methodology For the salmon migration map, tribal fisheries experts provided the Chinook salmon migration route, which was mapped by filtering U.S. Census Bureau TIGER shapefiles for relevant bodies of water along the over 800-mile journey from the Pacific Ocean to the Stibnite site.
—Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 5 Feb. 2025
Their malicious actions are putting the health of people, especially children, at grave risk, and will surely lead to future public health and migration crises in the U.S.—let alone suffering around the globe.
—Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Inspired by the prophet Muhammad’s migration from Mecca to Medina, the system was originally designed as a means of broadening Islamic education in precolonial Nigeria.
—Ogar Monday, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Feb. 2025
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“Migration.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/migration. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
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migration
noun
mi·gra·tion
mī-ˈgrā-shən
: the act, process, or an instance of migrating
migration of larval nematodes to the lungs
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