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
Of course, we also go for stories that are larger than life, that traverse beyond this realm into a place that only movies can go.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
But even regular visitors would benefit from picking out a smaller section to traverse: Inwood to West Harlem or the East Village to Battery Park.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Between Bechuanaland and the northwestern Transvaal, dozens of unmarked roads traverse the border, and Cecil knew just which ones to take.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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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
People picking up their burgers never know that their order traverses two states and bounces back before they can even start driving to the pickup window.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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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
The cliffs he walked can now be traversed by stairs with convenient handrails built by the National Park Service.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
They traversed the Khangai Mountains to reach the shores of Lake Khövsgöl - aka the Blue Pearl of Mongolia.
From BBC ● May 21, 2026
Mornings as the streetcar traversed my ghetto I experienced a mixture of dread and trauma.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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By the end of the second hour—partly spent traversing grid-patterned streets to avoid an accident—I was bewitched.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Not many indoor cats like leashes or traversing the great outdoors with their person.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 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
The 57 bus travels through both kinds of neighborhoods, traversing an eleven-mile path from one end of the city to the other.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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