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sojourn

[soh-jurn, soh-jurn, soh-jurn] / ˈsoʊ dʒɜrn, ˈsoʊ dʒɜrn, soʊˈdʒɜrn /
NOUN
brief travel; visit
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Those uprisings, later coined the Arab Spring, succeeded in bringing about a short democratic sojourn in Tunisia and a much briefer one in Egypt, but they also unleashed unrest.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

Titian’s Roman sojourn lasted more than six months.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Two of the astronauts will get into Starship HLS and descend to the moon’s surface for a roughly one-week sojourn.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025

New York is one of three destinations on Doncic’s summer sojourn, a one-day stop in Chicago next followed by an intriguingly timed visit to Los Angeles on Saturday.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2025

Taking a break in the Tinian officers’ club with Serber and Phil Morrison, a theoretical physicist from Berkeley, he remembered Ryokichi Sagane and his two-year sojourn at the Rad Lab.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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