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shuttle

[shuht-l] / ˈʃʌt l /


VERB
travel back and forth
Synonyms


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I waited about 40 minutes at LAX Monday for a Hyatt House shuttle.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

Metro’s plan to shuttle hundreds of thousands of fans to the Games across L.A.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

The shuttle ships transit closer to the Oman side of the strait and presumably benefit from some protection from the U.S.

From MarketWatch Aug. 31, 2026

There's also a plan to introduce a park-and-ride system, and offer shuttle buses between the mountain ranges.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

I zip my bagful of vials and sample containers closed and walk toward the shuttle.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Unlike the Hollywood Bowl, which has fleets of shuttles ready to go, F&M Bank Amphitheater’s shuttle operation felt a bit leaner.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

Graham shuttles off this mortal coil with no such vindication.

From Slate Jul. 13, 2026

Moxi – which shuttles medical supplies around hospitals – might respond by displaying its heart-shaped LED eyes and a beep beep greeting of its own.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

At Denali, CEO Ryan Watts says that engineering receptor-mediated shuttles has been his life for 20 years.

From Barron's Jun. 3, 2026

He had bicycle clips and tatting shuttles and Mah Jong sets.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

A surreptitious airport catering truck secretly shuttled Trump to a waiting military plane, which flew him out instead.

From Slate Aug. 11, 2026

Instead of leaving on either that jet or “former” Air Force One, the president secretly hopped into an airport catering truck and shuttled to an Air Force C-32A, a smaller military plane.

From Salon Aug. 11, 2026

Flight-tracking websites show military transports have shuttled between the Israeli air base of Nevatim and the U.A.E. throughout the conflict.

From The Wall Street Journal May 1, 2026

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi had held 26 calls with counterparts from relevant countries while Beijing's Middle East envoy had "shuttled across" the war-torn region, a foreign ministry spokesperson said.

From Barron's Apr. 10, 2026

The closer victory came the faster we were shuttled around America in pursuit of a role to play in a drama which suddenly, underpopulated from the first, now had too many actors.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

Elon Musk’s Tesla robotaxis and Amazon-owned Zoox are shuttling customers autonomously, but are nowhere near the scale at which Waymo operates.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

The talks themselves are expected to be indirect: the two delegations sitting in separate rooms with Pakistani officials shuttling proposals between them, mirroring the format used in earlier Oman-mediated rounds.

From Barron's Apr. 10, 2026

The Pakistani intermediaries who will be shuttling between the two delegations have a tough job on their hands.

From BBC Apr. 9, 2026

Scott hopes this shuttling around of his stem cells, a procedure that costs patients $10,000, will rejuvenate his 82-year-old body and ward off the effects of aging.

From Slate Mar. 30, 2026

“I should wear a chauffeur’s cap for all the time I spend shuttling you and your brothers around.”

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan




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