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shuttle

[shuht-l] / ˈʃʌt l /


VERB
travel back and forth
Synonyms


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I waited about 40 minutes at LAX Monday for a Hyatt House shuttle.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

Metro’s plan to shuttle hundreds of thousands of fans to the Games across L.A.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

The Coast Guard has used the jet in question to shuttle high-level officials since 2002, according to its website.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

The shuttle ships transit closer to the Oman side of the strait and presumably benefit from some protection from the U.S.

From MarketWatch Aug. 31, 2026

Posters of different shuttle launches, including Columbia, Challenger, and Atlantis, mixed in with various Star Trek posters of Nyota Uhura.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

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

LA Metro is adding about 300 buses to its regular fleet to handle the additional demand, with shuttles servicing nine direct routes to SoFi Stadium, the site of eight matches, and various fan zones.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 7, 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

There were moments when all three looms were running as they ought—all the shuttles bearing full quills, all three temples hung high on the cloth, no warp threads snapping.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

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

From Slate Aug. 11, 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

They both remained present in my life as I shuttled weekly between their houses until college.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 2, 2026

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi had held 26 calls with counterparts from relevant countries while Beijing's Middle East envoy had "shuttled across" the war-torn region, a foreign ministry spokesperson said.

From Barron's Apr. 10, 2026

Screamer shuttled between Bovina and Perry’s hack board for almost a week.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

The ships are small, designed less for onboard revelry than for shuttling passengers from one port to another.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 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

She spends her off time shuttling Christopher to and from school or to Little League practice in her new Chevrolet sport utility vehicle, an early benefit of her higher paychecks.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times




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