migrate
verb (used without object)
to go from one country, region, or place to another.
was migrating
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past progressiveof migrate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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In November 2024, @CForce3000 announced the account was migrating to BlueSky, saying of X, “I don’t think there’s much reason to be on here anymore.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2026
"With these markers, we could determine whether the bird was local or if it was migrating from somewhere else," said Vander Zanden, who is the principal investigator of UF's Animal Migration and Ecology Lab.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 5, 2024
“We needed to get the stuff that breeds in boreal forest and tundra and was migrating through Connecticut, plus get the Connecticut breeders.”
From Scientific American ● Sep. 15, 2021
A city IT employee was migrating the files, which had not been accessed for the previous six to 18 months, from an online, cloud-based archive to a server at the city’s data center.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2021
The other was migrating from the vicarage to the more commodious old house of Mrs. Swancourt's, overlooking the same valley.
From A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
