traverse
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In June, thousands came to Tunkhannock Viaduct in Pennsylvania to see it traverse the concrete arch bridge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
“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
Cummings has a wider range to traverse as Arnold, whose repressed rage eventually has to find an outlet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
The bridge pinches off faster than light could traverse it, rendering it non-traversable.
From Science Daily ● May 22, 2026
I know bits of The Flower Drum Song, which I sing as we traverse the courtyard and mount the steps to the bathhouse.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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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
Combined with the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz—some 20% of the world’s oil traverses through the narrow waterway—$150 oil may not be so far-fetched.
From Barron's ● Mar. 7, 2026
The challenge, run by the Rachel Carson Trails Conservancy, traverses woods, roads and steep utility-line corridors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2025
A couple of weeks after Enrique disappears, his paternal grandmother, Maria, traverses Tegucigalpa to talk to Enrique’s relatives and Maria Isabel.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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They all high-fived, asked about each other’s families and went to dote on Ali’s 1-year-old daughter — Krug’s granddaughter, Eloise — who wore a shirt that traversed 50 years of family and friendship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
In recent weeks, dozens of ships, some of them the world’s largest tankers laden with oil and liquefied natural gas, have traversed the dangerous crossing, The Wall Street Journal reported late last month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
A description says it happened over Lake Huron in February 2023, around the time that a Chinese surveillance balloon traversed the United States, spurring increased scrutiny of UFOs.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
Colossal co-founder and CEO Ben Lamm acknowledged that a long road will have to be traversed to move from hatching baby chickens to resurrecting the moa by email.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
After some days spent in listless indolence, during which I traversed many leagues, I arrived at Strasburgh, where I waited two days for Clerval.
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
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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
Vasquez’s fears stemmed less from corporate backlash and more from his past life as a raver traversing Orange County and L.A.’s late-night scenes.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
The Highway Patrol urged the public to wear seat belts, not drink and drive and be cautious while traversing remote roads like Mount Emma given “limited sight distances, narrow lanes, and winding terrain.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2026
It was a voyage that promised passengers the trip of a lifetime traversing some of the Atlantic's most rugged and untouched landscapes.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
Do we have any hope of leaving Earth and traversing the immense distances even to Proxima Centauri in convenient periods of time?
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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