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travel

[trav-uhl] / ˈtræv əl /




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To find a better example of a garden with a true focus on native plants, curious visitors need not travel far.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

The union had already called a strike for Thursday in a bid to ensure that "urgency to travel is never prioritised over safety".

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

The researchers determined that incoming space rocks pass through seven distinct phases as they travel through the atmosphere.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

I want to travel to Europe for a few weeks this spring, but I want to make it as affordable as possible.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

Her only option is to travel by water.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

During Phase 2, the meteor travels into increasingly dense air, causing its brightness to intensify.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

But the curriculum begins with “The Odyssey,” travels forward in time to James Joyce’s “Ulysses” and then backward to end with “The Iliad.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

In the world's most populous country, the need for high-end hospitality workers is immense, fuelled by economic growth and the rise of a middle class that travels more and increasingly eats at plush establishments.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

In this video, WSJ travels to construction sites, analyzes satellite images and reviews legal filings to explain what comes next for the multibillion-dollar project.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

They were gliding away as Ixtali said, “May the Great Mother be with you in all your travels, and don’t forget to pick the flowers.”

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

We are reminded that Siena, as a major stop on the heavily traveled pilgrimage route from Northern Europe to Rome, frequently received news of phenomena occurring elsewhere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

The elder Bolsonaro also traveled to Florida on the eve of Lula’s inauguration in December 2022 after losing the election.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

As these particles traveled into the mannequins, they deposited energy at different depths, producing an uneven distribution of radiation doses.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

When it didn’t, she traveled to Canada to get another smaller IUD placed.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026

People looked like they had traveled from all over the world to be here.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

Most of those infected had recently travelled to the DRC.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

After the Oslo talks, Witkoff travelled to Saint Petersburg to meet Putin.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

Prosecutors argued that he had not travelled to Algeria to carry out journalistic work, but to commit a hostile act.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Jess O'Riordan travelled from Cork and it was "absolutely appalling" when he was "kicked off" Sheeran's tour.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

“If she’d a-wanted a husband look to me like she could a just picked one out right here. You don’t mean to tell me she done travelled all the way North just for that?”

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

This road trip continues a series exploring California’s overlooked scenic highways, inspired in part by artist Earl Thollander’s 1971“Back Roads of California,” whose sketches and travel notes celebrated a slower way of traveling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

An Argentine flight manifest reviewed by The Wall Street Journal lists Bolsonaro, traveling on an Italian passport, alongside his wife and two daughters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

In space, radiation arrives from every direction and includes many different particles and atomic nuclei traveling across an enormous range of energies.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

Salvation arrived in the form of a traveling companion who, inexplicably, had packed a French press.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

The gold arrows were now traveling along the clear surface and seeping into the open book, like invisible ink.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

Four men were arrested at a bus station in a nearby village, and the fifth was caught while he was travelling in a tuk-tuk.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

But the control centre decided to "resume traffic in circumstances that, from our point of view, are inexplicable," Puente said, with the Renfe train travelling 25 kilometres before striking the Iryo.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

Eduarda was also on the stationary train, travelling with her two cats.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

Maria Antonia Tigre, director of Global Climate Change Litigation at Columbia University's Sabin Center, noted that climate judgments are "travelling across jurisdictions."

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

If there’s no train going in the opposite direction, and if we’re travelling slowly enough, I can sometimes catch a glimpse of them out on their terrace.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins


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