traversing

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Often lately have I thought of a sentence in Patrick Leigh Fermor’s “A Time of Gifts,” his account of traversing Europe on foot in the early 1930s.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 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

The Strait, the most important oil-shipping route from the Middle East to Asia and elsewhere, doesn’t appear to be formally closed, but insurers have vowed to cancel policies for tankers traversing it.

From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026

As some have pointed out on the social-media platform X and elsewhere, the Strait of Hormuz is not just for crude-oil shipments, with fertilizer also traversing the waterway.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 1, 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