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shuttle

[shuht-l] / ˈʃʌt l /


VERB
travel back and forth
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Dulcamara said he first started collecting the artefacts after he attended a shuttle launch in 1996 and kept the ticket.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

There were the frozen steaks, the fraudulent university, the ill-fated airline shuttle, the bankrupt Atlantic City casinos and a short-lived dating show spun off from “The Apprentice” that was canceled after two seasons.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

When finished, the train is supposed to shuttle travelers to and from terminals, a parking and rental car lot and to the LAX/Metro Transit Center on Aviation Boulevard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

The shifts mean more of the world’s roughly 900 VLCCs are currently held up near Hormuz doing these short-haul shuttle runs—or sailing longer journeys around the Cape of Good Hope, pushing up costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

This time, Feathers, Rubio, and I alone enter the shuttle.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Graham shuttles off this mortal coil with no such vindication.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026

Moxi – which shuttles medical supplies around hospitals – might respond by displaying its heart-shaped LED eyes and a beep beep greeting of its own.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

Starting Friday, nine transit hubs, including Union Station, Crenshaw Station and downtown Long Beach, will host shuttles that provide direct access to the stadium for $1.75 each way, according to Metro.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

At Denali, CEO Ryan Watts says that engineering receptor-mediated shuttles has been his life for 20 years.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

As of 2012, 55 women have been in space, flying shuttles and commanding space stations.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson

Witkoff later confirmed on X that the talks had been held "through the mediators, who shuttled between the two sides throughout the day".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Guests were shuttled to the Storm King Art Center, where we were greeted with Blank Street Coffee and lavender vanilla scoops from Laz’s Ice Cream.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Instead of leaving on either that jet or “former” Air Force One, the president secretly hopped into an airport catering truck and shuttled to an Air Force C-32A, a smaller military plane.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

A surreptitious airport catering truck secretly shuttled Trump to a waiting military plane, which flew him out instead.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

“Must have anchored off site and shuttled in.”

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

He mostly keeps to himself and his personal guests, shuttling in and out for golf games, members said, though he still keeps his primary residence in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

“I left Paris thinking I’m going to goof off now,” Conlon explained, having for seven of his nine Paris years retained his positions in Cologne, shuttling between two exceptionally demanding jobs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

The talks themselves are expected to be indirect: the two delegations sitting in separate rooms with Pakistani officials shuttling proposals between them, mirroring the format used in earlier Oman-mediated rounds.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

The Pakistani intermediaries who will be shuttling between the two delegations have a tough job on their hands.

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026

After his rehabilitation, my father didn’t need us shuttling back and forth anymore.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee




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