expedition
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As part of his preparations for the series, Bartlett went on a photo-taking expedition through Seattle and Tacoma, collecting imagery of Pacific Northwest grunge to share with his artists: crumbling walls, fire escapes, water towers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
In the months afterward, he embarked on an ill-advised expedition to find gold in the headwaters of the Columbia River in Canada.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Nasa's Goddard Instrument Field Team, which specialises in studying Earth's extreme environments, led the research expedition.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Maybe this is why I have long treated “Ask a Manager” as both advice column and anthropological expedition behind the cubicle wall, where completely ordinary behaviors can become freighted with professional meaning.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
He knew that Roosevelt’s expedition through the Brazilian wilderness would garner international attention and raise Brazil’s profile in the world.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
Between 2018 and 2025, expeditions in Montenegro were carried out through a partnership involving Taxon Expeditions, the non-profit Taxon Foundation, and local collaborators from the Montenegrin Ecologists Society.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
Friends and family describe Wolfe as a force of nature, often dressed in camouflage shorts and ready with stories of his travels, fishing expeditions and the objects surrounding him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Ushuaia is already home to a more centrally located naval facility established in 1950, the Admiral Berisso Base, a staging point for Antarctic expeditions.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
“I feel a sense of crisis,” Kamada said in an interview, his office a few hundred yards from the docks where fishing boats and whale-watching expeditions put out to sea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The fleets set their courses by maps and written sailing directions prepared by previous expeditions.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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