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traverse

[trav-ers, truh-vurs] / ˈtræv ərs, trəˈvɜrs /




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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

Gulf Coast or carrying U.S. crude to destinations in Asia—to reroute toward the Middle East and traverse the strait.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

The bridge pinches off faster than light could traverse it, rendering it non-traversable.

From Science Daily May 22, 2026

Feel this, for instance, when Harry and pals traverse the moving staircase.

From Los Angeles Times May 14, 2026

In some town or city somewhere their wives and children live while the husbands traverse the nation carrying every kind of food and product and machine.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

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

Through these documents, the viewer travels across Sepuya’s memory as he traverses New York and L.A. in search of his artistic path and creative vision.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 31, 2025

He traverses the cellar until he finds Volkheimer in the gold armchair.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

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

The wolf — known as BEY03F — essentially traversed the Sierra Nevada in the span of three to four days, a feat Hunnicutt believes was made possible by a low snowpack this season.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 6, 2026

“My heart and compassion goes out to everyone who has traversed the traumatic journey of betrayal,” she told the Daily Mail.

From MarketWatch Apr. 6, 2026

On the far side of that fence, the terrain cants steeply down, but it is not too steep to be traversed by foot.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

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

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 pressure is all the greater given the doldrums the whole games industry has been traversing for more than two years, Blanchet noted.

From Barron's May 26, 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

The light by which we see it now has spent seventy-five years traversing the dark of interstellar space on its long journey to Earth.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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