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migrate

verb

Definition of migrate

as in to relocate

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

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Recent Examples of migrate Google set a 2029 target to migrate its full stack, including Chrome, Android and Cloud, to post-quantum cryptography, citing faster-than-expected progress. — Amit Sinha, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026 By the 1980s, Moncler had also migrated from the mountains to the city, as its puffers became part of the uniform of Milan’s Paninari, the post-prep youth tribe of the time. — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 5 Oct. 2026 To kill all humans, a superintelligent AI would need to take over and migrate between computer systems. — Geoffrey Irving, Time, 3 Oct. 2026 More recently, audiences migrated to streaming platforms and attention splintered across social apps and podcasts. — Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for migrate

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relocate

Verb

De La Faverie decided to relocate the brand’s operations to Deciem’s headquarters in Canada for a complete overhaul, a move endorsed by brand founder William Lauder.

— Jenny B. Fine, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
The prologue starts in 1986 in Newfoundland with a family relocating, uprooting their lives in the most all-encompassing of ways, taking their entire home — propped up on a barge and steered by a lone motorboat — across a bay.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026

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