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traverse

[trav-ers, truh-vurs] / ˈtræv ərs, trəˈvɜrs /




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“Neuromancer,” one of the defining cyberpunk novels, was published in 1988; that book imagines an interconnected, virtual reality world you can traverse by “jacking in.”

From Salon Jun. 8, 2026

A plan was hatched to find two couples to traverse Europe—trying ranch with different foods, engaging with locals and filming themselves doing both.

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 2026

The bridge pinches off faster than light could traverse it, rendering it non-traversable.

From Science Daily May 22, 2026

Older residents who need mobility aids such as walkers or wheelchairs are left without options to traverse their own neighborhoods because of the broken sidewalks, she told The Times afterward.

From Los Angeles Times May 21, 2026

It took then a few months to traverse the Atlantic Ocean and reach what was called the New World, the Americas.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Even when it traverses difficult terrain, though, the story emerges on the other side with another layer to add to its ongoing consideration of what it means to live free in America.

From Salon Jul. 1, 2026

Searching for their missing migrant children, a caravan of Central American mothers traverses Mexico with tireless, even superhuman determination.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 2, 2026

The course traverses the city, starting off in Stormont in east Belfast then heading south.

From BBC May 3, 2026

Combined with the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz—some 20% of the world’s oil traverses through the narrow waterway—$150 oil may not be so far-fetched.

From Barron's Mar. 7, 2026

A couple of weeks after Enrique disappears, his paternal grandmother, Maria, traverses Tegucigalpa to talk to Enrique’s relatives and Maria Isabel.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

Volunteers and paid canvassers have traversed neighborhoods on foot to talk to local businesses.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 14, 2026

In recent weeks, dozens of ships, some of them the world’s largest tankers laden with oil and liquefied natural gas, have traversed the dangerous crossing, The Wall Street Journal reported late last month.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 7, 2026

A description says it happened over Lake Huron in February 2023, around the time that a Chinese surveillance balloon traversed the United States, spurring increased scrutiny of UFOs.

From BBC May 22, 2026

Colossal co-founder and CEO Ben Lamm acknowledged that a long road will have to be traversed to move from hatching baby chickens to resurrecting the moa by email.

From Los Angeles Times May 21, 2026

How could two such different cultural universes maintain themselves across a calm strait only 10 miles wide and routinely traversed by canoes?

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

“The attacks are meant to disrupt and deter ships from traversing the strait,” Sanam Vakil, director of the Middle East and North Africa program at London’s Chatham House think tank.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

Indonesia and Singapore vowed on Monday that the Strait of Malacca, a critical oil transit chokepoint in the region, will remain "accessible" even as Iran imposes fees on ships traversing the Strait of Hormuz.

From Barron's Jul. 6, 2026

Vasquez’s fears stemmed less from corporate backlash and more from his past life as a raver traversing Orange County and L.A.’s late-night scenes.

From Slate Jun. 25, 2026

The Highway Patrol urged the public to wear seat belts, not drink and drive and be cautious while traversing remote roads like Mount Emma given “limited sight distances, narrow lanes, and winding terrain.”

From Los Angeles Times May 10, 2026

I am still getting used to traversing the dips and crevices of Mars’s surface.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga




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