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jaunt

[jawnt, jahnt] / dʒɔnt, dʒɑnt /


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But head coach Sergej Jakirovic will be sitting out the Sin City jaunt as he takes a more peaceful breather before the bright lights of the Premier League beckon.

From BBC ● May 23, 2026

Meanwhile, songs like “Down South” brim with nostalgia for days gone by — in this instance, memories of a hitchhiking jaunt with Harrison.

From Salon ● May 12, 2026

The astronauts on the International Space Station receive a dose of around 240 to 480 X-rays on a six-month jaunt up in the exosphere.

From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2026

Collins returned to the fold for a 2007 tour — including two spectacular evenings at the Hollywood Bowl — and, after his health deteriorated, a bittersweet farewell jaunt in 2021-22.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026

So that twelve-year-old Bobby could participate in the barnstorming jaunt to Cuba, Regina allowed him to withdraw from school temporarily.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

On those same New York jaunts, the battery range exceeded my expectations, largely set by my Mustang Mach-E.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

He had taken a trip this month to Switzerland, his favoured destination for overseas jaunts, fuelling fresh speculation over the state of his health.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025

I can only imagine a bigger fuss if Taylor Swift’s private jet suddenly vanished over the South Pacific during one of her jaunts across the globe for date night with Travis Kelce.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

Blue Origin’s accomplishments to date are modest — a small vehicle known as New Shepard that takes space tourists and experiments on brief suborbital jaunts.

From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2024

For her, the European trips were simply pleasure jaunts, during which her husband took the chance to catch up with old friends.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

As he jaunted to the mound for the fourth, the crowd woke up, rising in volume; but not for Kochanowicz.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2025

One model jaunted down the runway in a ruffle-lined hot-pink tweed jacket, another in a matching skirt.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2023

As if to underline the need for joy, a reggae dancer jaunted down center stage to close the show.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 18, 2022

Last week, he jaunted to Tallahassee, The Villages and Tampa with Dr. Scott Atlas, President Trump’s controversial new coronavirus adviser.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 9, 2020

He chanced to take a pretty damsel's eye, As, a strange sailor, he through Naples jaunted; All that she did for him so tenderly, E'en to his blessed end the poor man haunted.

From Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe by Charles Timothy Brooks

Buzan is particularly good at teasing out Linda’s vivacity and frustration, jaunting around in costume designer Ivania Stack’s gorgeous flapper dresses and speaking with snark and tamped-down despair.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2022

There have been glimmers of cultural relevance: For instance, O’Brien made news in March by jaunting to Havana for a special Conan in Cuba.

From Slate ● May 10, 2015

I seriously imagined me and the dress and the man and the balcony, but, no, there has been no such Italy jaunting.

From US News ● Dec. 28, 2012

Bram Whillock, 28, has been jaunting around the world’s premier rock-climbing locations.

From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2011

She, Mrs. Van Dorn, was going to start for Southern France the beginning of the year and would have a restful time after the jaunting about.

From Helen Grant's Schooldays by Amanda M. Douglas




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