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travel

[trav-uhl] / ˈtræv əl /




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St. Francis has been invited to travel to Illinois, Massachusetts and Oregon for tournaments and showcases, all with the idea the twin towers are going to attract fan interest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

An additional £2m was also given to the project to link the site to Waterton with an active travel route, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

It is generally easier for Hong Kong passport holders to enter Taiwan than those with mainland Chinese passports, who must also apply for special permission to travel there.

From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026

Google won the bankruptcy auction in August for Spirit’s digital archives, including decades of payroll, travel and recruiting files, along with about 100 million emails, 80,000 email accounts and millions of additional digital items.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

In so many of the time- travel books and movies he’d seen, people came back from the future to warn about global warming or stuff like that.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

When my wife travels, screen time hits all-time highs, healthy eating habits plunge, and hygiene becomes suspect.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026

"For roughly the price of a car, you can own your home on a ship that travels the world," its founder Mikael Petterson had earlier said.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

Adoring fans mob Huang when he travels to Taiwan and around the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

The researchers used circularly polarized X-rays, which have electric fields that rotate in either a left-handed or right-handed direction as the light travels.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

A tingle travels up my spine and itches the back of my neck.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

BBC journalist Tabby Wilson visits one of Australia’s most famous Jacaranda photo spots and speaks to visitors who have traveled from across the globe to see the blooms.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

The robot traveled aboard Momentus Inc.'s Vigoride 7 orbital vehicle, which carried 10 separate payloads into low Earth orbit.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026

The podcast has been approached by a travel company offering to put together a “Swiftie and The Scholar” trip to the U.K. loosely based on places Jerry has traveled to and mentioned during the podcast.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026

I traveled, ate and drank, and I met kindred souls I felt I’d known for lifetimes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

She traveled to New York and stayed with Mrs. Walter.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

The Nordic countries are key supporters of Ukraine and Zelensky travelled to Oslo at the end of October to meet with American envoys.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026

Almost 30 people from the community based in northeastern Nagaland, a mountainous state bordering Myanmar, travelled to Britain for the ceremony, which the museum's director, Laura Van Broekhoven, called a "historic moment".

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

King travelled to the US as part of the preparation squad before the World Cup, along with Alex Scott, Ethan Nwaneri and Rio Ngumoha.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

One of Hinduism's foundational epics, the Ramayana has travelled across centuries and continents, finding expression in poetry, temple sculpture, shadow puppetry, folk theatre and stories passed down through generations.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

“We travelled together from out west. He’s a good hunter.”

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

It isn’t a prospect I relish, though a recent trip reminded me that traveling with others can bring out the best in us.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

But he will soon be traveling to Washington, D.C., where Route 66 boosters are pushing a pair of identical bills that call for creation of a Route 66 National Historic Trail.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

Pérez has heard about recruiters traveling in July for lunches and dinners with admitted students to keep them engaged and ensure contact with the university.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

She was haunted by her handling of deadly wildfires in 2025, which erupted while she was traveling for the Biden administration.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

My favorite is the one he wrote about the six months he spent traveling in the Amazon by riverboat.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

In halting English, Tetiana tells us walking is safer than travelling by car.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

Mollie, who lives in Padiham, was travelling in the Galapagos Islands after university when she said she started to feel ill.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

Egypt's railway authority said a train travelling from Giza to Fayoum crashed into the rear of another service heading south from Cairo to the city of Aswan.

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

Restaurant staff say the novelty has brought a surge in customers -- some travelling from across the sprawling port city to meet the robots.

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

She wore a dark-coloured travelling dress of some thin material eminently suitable for the heated atmosphere of the train.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie


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