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caravan

[kar-uh-van] / ˈkær əˌvæn /


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“I kept asking myself whether it was true or not,” the 35-year-old office worker said as she joined thousands of supporters on the streets of Caracas to welcome Machado’s caravan on Sunday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Among them was Hannah Dawson-Turk, who told the BBC "the night before last, it sounded like our caravan was going to be ripped apart".

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

The actor, who runs a caravan park on the Isle of Sheppey with daughter Dani Dyer, delivered the petition having previously joined a local sewage protest in Leysdown in September.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

On that 1848 trip, Mason walked 1,700 miles alongside a 300-wagon caravan over months, The Times previously reported.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

And worse yet, I think, he had lost his faith in the family ties of the caravan.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

People also distributed hand-drawn maps for caravans to follow.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Half a mile away in the village of Minera, there have been reports of dozens of lorries tipping on a field opposite homes, as well as caravans and earthmovers installed on the site.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Last summer, officials in Basildon, Essex, counted more unauthorised caravans than anywhere else in England.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

A planning inspector ruled five caravans could stay across two plots, giving 16 months for the remaining caravans, hardstanding and part of a road to go.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

From India the pepper was shipped across to Arabia, where camel caravans would carry it all the way to Syria.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen caravanned from a government building to a business incubator, set to end her day at the president’s residence, spreading a message of mutually beneficial U.S.-Africa relations.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 20, 2023

We caravanned up to Massachusetts and I cried in bursts for much of the drive, especially when we passed minivans encrusted with bike racks full of little, brightly colored bikes.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2022

Cesar was there along with a contingent that had caravanned from the Willis Avenue Bridge.

From The Verge ● Sep. 13, 2021

My cousins still caravanned from Anaheim to Los Angeles to celebrate the championships of both the Dodgers and Lakers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2020

We caravanned to Kerry’s hometown with a bunch of people, squeezing into a car with Henry and Willow, who was so pregnant the seat belt wouldn’t fit over her bump.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

As the rising sun spat fiery fuchsia across the sky, three companions and I caravaned to an unmarked trailhead near the eastern entrance to Yosemite National Park.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2024

They caravaned to the Swiss border, then Montemaggi and two of the men entered the woods.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2021

She became so close with her classmates that two years later, when the program was finished, the group of aspiring filmmakers caravaned across the country to move to L.A. together.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2018

As the family caravaned to Harvard, Pam Ogletree tugged her husband’s Martha’s Vineyard baseball cap off his head and looked him over.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2017

Others started to get into it as we caravaned past the Villas at Versailles.

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor

Highway capacity will be increased by a factor of four by caravaning.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2018

He built an empire based on caravaning — that’s what Australians call the popular pastime — and then invested in cycling, thoroughbreds, wine, soccer, basketball, technology and art.

From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2018

Yet this week the New Jersey governor was in a relative wilderness, caravaning along the slushy roads of eastern Iowa and sporting a different pin on his suit jacket: the Iowa state flag.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2015

Yeah, caravaning is inherently silly, but there's nothing wrong with enjoying the British countryside.

From The Guardian ● May 17, 2012

It has many advantages over caravaning by land.

From Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East by A. Hume-Griffith

Vehicle access to forests, including for caravanning and camping, is suspended for the duration of the weather warning.

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2024

He said he hadn’t seen candidates caravanning around the city in the usual fashion or even banners advertising candidacies.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2022

The global market for camping and caravanning is expected to grow 6.6 percent from 2020 to 2025, according to Research and Markets.

From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2022

Most post-apocalyptic fiction offers hope in some form, whether it’s the caravanning Shakespeare companies of Station Eleven or the new family the son finds in The Road.

From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2020

It was a delightfully free and unconventional life, almost like camping or caravanning.

From Loyal to the School by Angela Brazil


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