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shuttle

[shuht-l] / ˈʃʌt l /


VERB
travel back and forth
Synonyms


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There's also a plan to introduce a park-and-ride system, and offer shuttle buses between the mountain ranges.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

Brent crude traded at $91.62 a barrel as Gulf oil exports ran at roughly half their prewar rate, with workarounds including pipeline diversions and shuttle ships coming under increasing pressure.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

People posted on social media, reporting "crazy queues" for the shuttle bus and blue flashing lights on the main road outside the stadium.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

Embraer executives also gave an update on Eve Air Mobility, a subsidiary developing electric "air taxis" designed to shuttle passengers above congested city streets.

From Barron's Aug. 10, 2026

The shuttle driver looked at his watch and grunted.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

Graham shuttles off this mortal coil with no such vindication.

From Slate Jul. 13, 2026

Moxi – which shuttles medical supplies around hospitals – might respond by displaying its heart-shaped LED eyes and a beep beep greeting of its own.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

Starting Friday, nine transit hubs, including Union Station, Crenshaw Station and downtown Long Beach, will host shuttles that provide direct access to the stadium for $1.75 each way, according to Metro.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 11, 2026

At Denali, CEO Ryan Watts says that engineering receptor-mediated shuttles has been his life for 20 years.

From Barron's Jun. 3, 2026

The families of weaver ants engage in child labor, holding their larvae like shuttles to spin out the thread that sews the leaves together for their fungus gardens.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

A surreptitious airport catering truck secretly shuttled Trump to a waiting military plane, which flew him out instead.

From Slate Aug. 11, 2026

Instead of leaving on either that jet or “former” Air Force One, the president secretly hopped into an airport catering truck and shuttled to an Air Force C-32A, a smaller military plane.

From Salon Aug. 11, 2026

They both remained present in my life as I shuttled weekly between their houses until college.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 2, 2026

For six weeks, she was shuttled with other women between detention sites, including al-Mina al-Bary, a bus depot near the market where the UN said hundreds were held in about 70 shipping containers.

From Barron's Mar. 22, 2026

Only that she was, in her words: a hellion, who was shuttled from one unhappy foster situation to another.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

“I left Paris thinking I’m going to goof off now,” Conlon explained, having for seven of his nine Paris years retained his positions in Cologne, shuttling between two exceptionally demanding jobs.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 2026

Erika Martinez, an Uber and Lyft driver in the San Francisco Bay Area, used to fill up her 2022 Toyota RAV4 every morning for about $50, before spending the day shuttling customers across the region.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 12, 2026

The talks themselves are expected to be indirect: the two delegations sitting in separate rooms with Pakistani officials shuttling proposals between them, mirroring the format used in earlier Oman-mediated rounds.

From Barron's Apr. 10, 2026

The Pakistani intermediaries who will be shuttling between the two delegations have a tough job on their hands.

From BBC Apr. 9, 2026

She spends her off time shuttling Christopher to and from school or to Little League practice in her new Chevrolet sport utility vehicle, an early benefit of her higher paychecks.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times




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