expedition
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One of the senior researchers on the expedition, Andrew DeVogelaere, said he was focused on the seafloor, “thinking about the whale pits,” when the squid suddenly showed up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Griffin in turn filed a defamation suit, claiming the woman’s account was wholly false and lambasting the New York Times’ reporting as a “fishing expedition aimed at smearing” her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The avalanche struck on July 30, cutting off contact with the 10-member international expedition led by 43-year-old British-Nepali climber Purja on Broad Peak, one of the world's highest mountains.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
The expedition also revealed a major problem with searching for giant trees from the ground.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
A grim-faced guard marched beside me, her scowl forbidding me to take pleasure in the expedition.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
But funding for paleontology remains limited and the research community small, while expeditions into remote areas can be costly.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
More expeditions followed, in which the POW agency and its partners conducted intensive underwater surveys to map the wreck and check on access to the ship’s cargo holds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Dr Mark Evans, the collections manager at BAS, recently spotted the fossil amongst thousands of specimens brought back from expeditions to Antarctica over the decades.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
The few times he appeared outside those safe spaces came off as safari expeditions in a mysterious city the 42-year-old lifelong Angeleno obviously didn’t know.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
It was a natural landmark where campers often rendezvoused on hunting expeditions, but now there was nobody around.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
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