hitchhiker
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His subsequent novel in 1976, “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues,” spotlighted the dynamic Sissy Hankshaw, a woman with supersized thumbs who capitalizes on her mutation by becoming a hitchhiker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2025
In 1967, an unlikely American duo of Charlie Cushman, a hitchhiker, and Herbert “Skip” Cole, a postgraduate student, were sent around the country by the antiquities department, to gather up some of the heritage.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2024
In the story, Tom picks up a hitchhiker, who insults him before leaping out of the car, and Tom just keeps driving away.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2024
Worst of all, the spotted lanternfly is a skilled hitchhiker, able to cling to surfaces that travel at high speed, such as cars and trains.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 31, 2023
Jim Gallien had driven four miles out of Fairbanks when he spot-ted the hitchhiker standing in the snow beside the road, thumb raised high, shivering in the gray Alaska dawn.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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