traverse
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The ride will feature multiple launches, reach a height of 107 feet and traverse 3,380 feet of track, which is more than a half mile.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Xi is expected to traverse the entire capital during his visit Wednesday, including a stop at the Grand Egyptian Museum overlooking the Giza Pyramids.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
All three countries are knit together by the Himalayas and river systems that traverse from Tibet to the Bay of Bengal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Book a ride with Cavalos na Areia, whose guided excursions also traverse pine forests and rice fields before arriving at the beach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
In the short traverse from mountain to ocean, travelers pass through twenty of the world’s thirty-four principal types of environment.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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“This technology will help us find Luke Skywalker as he traverses the universe in his X-Wing. This technology is a necessary, necessary force.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
However paradoxical it may seem, it has a directly measurable effect on the atomic cloud that the photon traverses.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
With nothing but a handheld camcorder, a man traverses endless corridors and rooms adorned with soft-chartreuse wallpaper.
From Salon ● May 30, 2026
The course traverses the city, starting off in Stormont in east Belfast then heading south.
From BBC ● May 3, 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
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As Sauer traversed the peaks and valleys of the pile, wind blew ash into his eyes and throat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
This space has been traversed for nearly four months by Jared Kushner, whom I first met about 18 months ago, when he introduced himself after a foreign policy lecture I had given.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
On day 20 of her journey, Catterall met her in Switzerland after she had traversed “a particularly spicy descent on a sketchy section of via ferrata,” according to Woods’ Instagram.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 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
It probably happened as he traversed a series of melting beaver ponds just beyond the Teklanika’s western bank, but there is nothing to indicate that he suffered any harm in the mishap.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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For most people, spending 22 hours traversing the entire New York City subway system sounds like a nightmare.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 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
And the three-hour performance was a reminder that his global success didn't happen overnight, with him digging deep into his eight-year discography - traversing trap and reggaeton fusions.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 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
Laney crawled around the floor, traversing a path that made sense only to her.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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