traverse
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“Neuromancer,” one of the defining cyberpunk novels, was published in 1988; that book imagines an interconnected, virtual reality world you can traverse by “jacking in.”
From Salon • Jun. 8, 2026
A plan was hatched to find two couples to traverse Europe—trying ranch with different foods, engaging with locals and filming themselves doing both.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
The bridge pinches off faster than light could traverse it, rendering it non-traversable.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
Thankfully that never happened thanks to the ship’s stabilizers, allowing me to traverse sea ice, view an unsuccessful polar bear hunt, and photograph wildlife from whales to walruses in comfort.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
Half an hour later they were making a long traverse across a deeper slope that edged further to the north and delivered them at last to another valley, another little stream.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Vocabulary lists containing traverse
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