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verb

migrate

to move from one place to another

In a sentence

Six example sentences with migrate, each labelled with its topic.

  • Millions of monarch butterflies migrate to a handful of Mexican valleys each autumn and cover the fir trees completely.

    Environment

  • The team will migrate the archive to the new servers overnight, keeping the old copies until the checksums agree.

    Technology

  • When the shipyards closed, welders migrated to the coast in such numbers that rents there doubled within four years.

    Economics

  • Whole villages chose to migrate west along the trail in the 1840s, hauling their furniture in wagons across the plains.

    History

  • When the old server lagged, the entire guild agreed to migrate to a new realm and rebuild their characters from scratch.

    Gaming

  • Half the customer base began to migrate to a rival app within weeks of the pricing change, and the founders panicked.

    Startups

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