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voyage

[voi-ij] / ˈvɔɪ ɪdʒ /


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A U.S. cruise ship on a three-year voyage has suspended its journey in Cambodia due to high fuel costs, forcing hundreds of passengers to disembark.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

By the time Stewart’s final voyage with “Star Trek” debuted in 2020, Picard was less of a Starfleet hero than a wise man exhausted by politics and cruelty.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

They had been promised the voyage of a lifetime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

The ship, the Marin Mainiku, on Monday arrived at the western side of the island, part of the nation of Kiribati, after a five-day voyage crossing 830-nautical-miles through the South Pacific.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

One of them he had met on his voyage back to Germany.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

Their voyages were iconic: The former piggybacked atop a Boeing 747, past the Hollywood Sign and Griffith Observatory, before landing at LAX.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Maritime voyages during the that period are known from Egyptian texts, pottery vessels and raw materials from ancient tombs.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

Tanker freight rates have climbed sharply as vessels are tied up in shuttle operations and longer voyages, with Clarksons previously reporting record crude-tanker rates as Middle East shipping disruptions intensified.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Leo has taken no long voyages this summer, instead venturing to Pavia, Lampedusa and Assisi for short visits.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

Needless to say, Vergil makes no mention of the contemporary voyages of discovery, although he went on revising his text until 1553.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Taking thousands of images and recording audio descriptions of the bleakly beautiful the lunar surface as it passed beneath them, the crew eventually voyaged 252,756 miles from Earth.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026

However, we have voyaged far enough into spring so that even failure to match the averages leaves us warm enough to discourage complaint.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2022

A couple hundred years ago, a traveler may have noticed breads growing distinctly flatter as she voyaged north through Europe.

From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2022

Four months after Edith arrived and found work as a housekeeper for a local singer, she voyaged back to Veracruz, Mexico, to bring her three teenage children across the border.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 10, 2019

She’d voyaged across the Atlantic with her nineteen-year-old brother, who’d died of dysentery during the trip.

From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate

So we get why Ross opts to normalize voyaging alone instead of speaking to common fears about it.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2025

Unsure what it would be like voyaging with so many youngsters, she booked a short four-day journey.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2024

After Charles Darwin happened across “vast rings of coral-rock” while voyaging through the southern Pacific Ocean on the Beagle, he wrote that upon seeing them, “everyone must be struck with astonishment.”

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 22, 2023

The news outlet noted that Justice Thomas has taken 38 destination vacations that included voyaging on a yacht, traveling via private jets and even helicopters.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 10, 2023

In the pampas of Argentina and Uruguay, the voyaging Charles Darwin discovered hundreds of square miles strangled by feral artichoke.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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