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journey

[jur-nee] / ˈdʒɜr ni /




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With Ukrainian airspace closed, the trip to Kyiv required an overnight train from Poland, a roughly 10-hour journey.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

So, despite the journey, when Wrobleski looks back at the pitcher he was a year and a half ago, he doesn’t see a complete overhaul.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

It was Tolo’s idea to take the journey public.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

It's a short journey but it means crossing an international border.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

The sun had already made half her journey.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

In a community where residents are preoccupied with their own difficult recovery journeys, the unity was noteworthy.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

Finally, Ecuador’s coach, Argentine Sebastián Beccacece, complained about the logistics of the trip to Mexico, claiming it involved long journeys that were an undue burden for his team.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

The airline apologised for the inconvenience and said it was working to get journeys back on track, stressing that the vast majority of customers would be unaffected.

From BBC Jun. 27, 2026

During their heyday, they broke up long road journeys much as Cracker Barrel does in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

By his reckoning it was nearly thirty leagues from the Morannon to the cross-roads above Osgiliath, and he hoped to cover that distance in four journeys.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

These resonated, she wrote, after "my daughter and I journeyed 10 years with only each other".

From BBC Jun. 7, 2026

The police don’t expend much energy on the case, but the victim’s family, having journeyed from the Philippines, thanks Jing-nan for reporting his death.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

The group journeyed to a gothic mansion in La Jolla and dressed as Marie Antoinette in extravagant rococo dresses.

From Los Angeles Times May 4, 2026

Humans have journeyed roughly 25 billion km beyond our planet, yet drilling beneath Earth's surface has only reached a depth of just over 12 km.

From Science Daily Feb. 5, 2026

But they saw little of the country, for they journeyed mostly by night and twilight, resting by day, and lying as hidden as the land allowed.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

That’s a worthy destination for the journeying Mr. Burnham.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

He says that many of them were thirsty, starving or had rotten feet after journeying into Evros.

From BBC Apr. 14, 2026

The four astronauts on NASA's Artemis 2 mission began their fifth day journeying to the Moon on Sunday, after already taking in sights of the lunar surface never before seen by human eyes.

From Barron's Apr. 5, 2026

I think of how the only thing separating Los Angeles from Japan, Yamaguchi from her parents, is a long stretch of Pacific Ocean, and how she’s been journeying it most her life.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2025

Even if there were a doctor among the land rushers, they’d be journeying on.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes




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