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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In April, mama whales and babies are migrating north because the cows stay longer in the lagoons in Mexico to give birth and care for their young.
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Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
This whale, however, migrated between two distinct breeding stocks in different oceans.
—Julianna Bragg, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
Nearly 3,000 villages in Spain could turn into ghost towns and 896 villages in Japan are estimated to disappear by 2040, as younger populations migrate to cities.
—Eliot Stein, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2024
How about transitioning not only the code but migrating the underlying data to a new database such as MongoDB or Postgres?
AWS has also announced that this approach will be utilized for even more complex infrastructure migrations.
—Jason Andersen, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
This whale, however, migrated between two distinct breeding stocks in different oceans.
—Julianna Bragg, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
Nearly 3,000 villages in Spain could turn into ghost towns and 896 villages in Japan are estimated to disappear by 2040, as younger populations migrate to cities.
—Eliot Stein, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2024
How about transitioning not only the code but migrating the underlying data to a new database such as MongoDB or Postgres?
AWS has also announced that this approach will be utilized for even more complex infrastructure migrations.
—Jason Andersen, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
See all Example Sentences for migrate
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