expedition
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ALI director Rick Pettigrew said the team was aware of the global interest in the expedition and would share its results "as soon as we are able".
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Egged on by demagogues, Thucydides narrates, Athens embarked on a war of choice—the Sicilian expedition, the disastrous failure of which contributed to Athens’s eventual defeat in the Peloponnesian War.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
In the 1770s, Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza led an expedition of settlers into what would later become California, bringing donkeys and horses with him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Nasa's Goddard Instrument Field Team, which specialises in studying Earth's extreme environments, led the research expedition.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
In the four days since starting their journey into the unknown, the expedition had traveled only twenty miles down the river.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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The snails were discovered during expeditions organized by Taxon Expeditions, an initiative that allows members of the public to take part in genuine scientific fieldwork.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
Friends and family describe Wolfe as a force of nature, often dressed in camouflage shorts and ready with stories of his travels, fishing expeditions and the objects surrounding him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
“I feel a sense of crisis,” Kamada said in an interview, his office a few hundred yards from the docks where fishing boats and whale-watching expeditions put out to sea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
But funding for paleontology remains limited and the research community small, while expeditions into remote areas can be costly.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
“I went ice climbing for the first time the other day,” Deysel offered enthusiastically, gesturing toward a nearby serac where climbers from several expeditions had been practicing their ice craft.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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