traverse
Example Sentences
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It is through language that we, as humans, traverse the chasm separating us from one another.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026
Reports say this careful selection of judges, representing different genders, religions, castes and regions, will help "lend wider legitimacy to a verdict that will inevitably traverse contested terrain".
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
The fate of the global oil markets—and the global economy—rests on whether ships can traverse the 22-mile-wide waterway from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman.
From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026
Shipping traffic remains throttled in the Strait of Hormuz, a trade route off Iran’s coast that fully a third of the world’s seagoing oil exports traverse in a normal year.
From Slate • Mar. 11, 2026
Half an hour later they were making a long traverse across a deeper slope that edged further to the north and delivered them at last to another valley, another little stream.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Vocabulary lists containing traverse
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