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shuttle

noun as in space shuttle

verb as in travel back and forth

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Buses shuttled them from the city to the Silicon Valley campuses of Apple, Google and Meta.

The two survivors were rescued by a US military helicopter and then shuttled onto a US warship in the Caribbean, unnamed US officials told US media earlier.

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These "dendritic nanotubes," as the researchers call them, appeared to shuttle harmful molecules from one neuron to another.

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Washington says the deployment is to deter Venezuelan drug traffickers and has bombed five boats it claims were shuttling contraband.

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In the dimly lit room, men hunch over their looms, shuttling cotton threads back and forth as their feet work a complex pedal system that never seems to rest.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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