crossing
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Earlier this year, Chinese marathoner Li Meizhen made headlines after crossing the finish line at the Hengshui Lake Marathon with menstrual blood on her legs.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
A vessel was struck while crossing the Strait of Hormuz early Sunday morning, sparking a fire and forcing the evacuation of its crew.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
The brothers covered about 260 miles in a straight line over the course of eight months, but travelled nearly 10 times that overall while crossing through a broken-up landscape.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Anthony, a Zimbabwean in his forties, was picked up by the ICE last year after crossing the Mexican border at the end of a long, dangerous trek through central America.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
We come out of the woods for ten feet or so, crossing the road that runs through campus.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
Sometimes the number of crossings has dropped to 200 a day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
However, phone records and location tracking placed several of them near the departure site and linked them to organising crossings to Britain.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
A Spanish police report leaked last week flagged "total permissiveness" by Moroccan security forces during the rush, saying their numbers at the Ceuta border were lower than usual and that some actively facilitated the crossings.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
It comes days after Prime Minister Andy Burnham and French President Emmanuel Macron met to discuss how to "scale up" efforts to reduce small boat crossings.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
I don’t know whether I should take her arm or not, and so I don’t; I walk along beside her, watchful at crossings as if she’s blind, slowing my pace to hers.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
