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travel

[trav-uhl] / ˈtræv əl /




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The stronger buck may be good news for Americans looking to travel abroad, but it can be a drag on U.S. companies whose products become more expensive for foreign buyers.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

These near-premium cards are increasingly being aimed at younger Americans eager for travel, dining out and the merry-go-round of other life experiences constantly on display on social media and in pop culture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Pauline Ellis of the Mad Hatter bed and breakfast, said some visitors had cancelled trips because travel costs had become too expensive.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

The Justice Department says Blanche’s campaign “appearances are reviewed and cleared by the Department’s ethics officials” and that he reimburses travel expenses “in accordance with federal law, regulations, and policies.”

From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2026

I hide in the dark under my comforter with my travel sweets, furious, but mostly weary of it all.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Like the Sun and other stars, it travels around the center of the Milky Way.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

But under the constant watch of phone cameras and gossip that travels at the speed of social media feeds, they face greater pressures.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

China will be in focus this week as the country’s president, Xi Jinping, travels to Washington for a summit with U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

King/Drew also travels to face Baltimore St. Francis Academy, where coach Joe Torres used to coach.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Billy Lee made his way to New York, his travels slowed by the severe pain in his damaged knees.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

“Rolywholyover” traveled to the Guggenheim in New York’s SoHo district the next year, and the young curator in charge was Michael Govan, LACMA’s visionary head behind the Zumthor galleries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

One engineer, who traveled with Kao to D.C. to explain the technical side of a project, recalled being sent out of the room once the subject of money came up.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

They had discovered that they could make a lucrative living helping others reach the elite professional track they had once traveled themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

"We see how Yersinia pestis splits into new branches during periods of conflict and spreads along the routes traveled by troops and displaced populations," said senior author Dr. Christiana L. Scheib.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

Block after block they traveled, but the brave little ship stayed in view the whole time, just as the moon does.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

The family, who split their time between Costa Rica and Orkney and travelled more than 5,000 miles for the birth, said Duncan was born in a much-loved place.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Light has been used for decades for long-distance communications over optical fibre - the data for this article probably travelled down a fibre optic cable at some stage.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

About 15,000 fans travelled from the US for Saturday's game - 9,000 rooting for ASU and 6,000 Kansas.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

The debris travelled about 20 kilometres, dropping 1,700 metres at Rasuwagadhi in only seven minutes, said Sudan Bikash Maharjan, a geologist with the Kathmandu-based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development.

From Barron's

She travelled into the stratosphere on an exhibition trip, where the sky turned deep purple and the stars came out and the misty earth below looked like a huge concave bowl.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

However, when Ortega isn’t traveling for work, she has long maintained ties to the California desert community where she grew up.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

The scammers had known they were traveling to Mexico, as well as many other details about the family.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

The spectacle of artificial-intelligence executives traveling to Washington to warn government about the technology they’re building belongs to the same tradition as the so-called war of the currents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

The State Department restricts the delegation to traveling only between the airport, their hotel and the U.N. headquarters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

When I told Mama where you were traveling, she dropped a whole platter of biscuits from the shock of it.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

However, the reality is different for a growing number of students who say they will instead be staying at home and travelling to their seminars due to the cost of living.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

"When you're on tour, it's quite dull when you're travelling so it was quite good to have something to read," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Speaking to reporters travelling with him on the way to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Burnham linked cost of living pressures to the decision.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

"Just no point in me travelling, wasting my time while I'm getting booed," said Littler.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

For the rest of his life he was thoroughly cosmopolitan, travelling widely, living for twenty years in Weimar, and for six years near Rome, where he took holy orders.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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