traverse
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The ride will feature multiple launches, reach a height of 107 feet and traverse 3,380 feet of track, which is more than a half mile.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
“It’s not easy to traverse all of these worlds, but it’s part of what makes him so unique,” says his older sister and manager, the director Kanyessa McMahon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
"It's quite literally impossible to traverse, whether on foot or in a vehicle, from the other side into this area. Furthermore, this is not the will of the people of this region."
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
Joining with the main cast, the new Buzzes enact the series’ trademark high jinks about the silly maneuvering it takes for toys to traverse the types of barriers that humans can easily negotiate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
Looking through the window, I saw him traverse the garden.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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Muratov traverses miles of road and centuries of culture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
However paradoxical it may seem, it has a directly measurable effect on the atomic cloud that the photon traverses.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
With nothing but a handheld camcorder, a man traverses endless corridors and rooms adorned with soft-chartreuse wallpaper.
From Salon ● May 30, 2026
The course traverses the city, starting off in Stormont in east Belfast then heading south.
From BBC ● May 3, 2026
It traverses no notable eminences at all in Pennsylvania, offers no particularly memorable vistas, visits no national parks or forests, and overlooks the state’s considerable history.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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This space has been traversed for nearly four months by Jared Kushner, whom I first met about 18 months ago, when he introduced himself after a foreign policy lecture I had given.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
On day 20 of her journey, Catterall met her in Switzerland after she had traversed “a particularly spicy descent on a sketchy section of via ferrata,” according to Woods’ Instagram.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
In recent weeks, clumps of ships, some of them the world’s largest tankers laden with oil and liquefied natural gas, have traversed the dangerous crossing, creating a tiny relief valve for the global economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
They traversed the Khangai Mountains to reach the shores of Lake Khövsgöl - aka the Blue Pearl of Mongolia.
From BBC ● May 21, 2026
They’d traversed about half of what they could see of its length when Mark heard voices, then saw their source.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
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The production’s adventurousness, traversing every corner of Brad Bentz’s scenic design, can have a diffuse effect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
By the end of the second hour—partly spent traversing grid-patterned streets to avoid an accident—I was bewitched.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Indonesia and Singapore vowed on Monday that the Strait of Malacca, a critical oil transit chokepoint in the region, will remain "accessible" even as Iran imposes fees on ships traversing the Strait of Hormuz.
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
And the three-hour performance was a reminder that his global success didn't happen overnight, with him digging deep into his eight-year discography - traversing trap and reggaeton fusions.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
The scariest part was traversing the walkway through the glass enclosure, a long, brightly lit stretch that left them completely exposed.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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