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expedition

[ek-spi-dish-uhn] / ˌɛk spɪˈdɪʃ ən /




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At 15, Martin Luther King Jr. joined a work expedition to a Connecticut tobacco farm.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

Coronado’s expedition was unable to find the Seven Cities of Gold.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

Lakpa Sherpa, an expedition operator and veteran climber, said airlift technology was used to support rope-fixing teams by delivering ropes, ladders, snow bars and food during critical phases.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

Scientists also compared the specimen to a similar object collected in 2021 during an expedition aboard Schmidt Ocean Institute's Research Vessel Falkor, finding matching cellular structures.

From Science Daily • Apr. 27, 2026

The expedition had discovered the hard way that in this part of the unexplored Amazon jungle, for some reason unknown to them, food was scarce.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple




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