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travel

[trav-uhl] / ˈtræv əl /




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The relaxed policy allows students or migrant workers to get married quickly without having to travel home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

A chef can travel the world without losing sight of where she came from.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

While some retirees rent because high mortgage rates make homeownership unaffordable, others rent to have higher retirement income and more flexibility to travel and see family.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

"Don't travel if you don't have to," Mayor Zohran Mamdani told residents in a video message.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

“Dragons don’t travel this far from their mountains, as far as I know.”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

But under the constant watch of phone cameras and gossip that travels at the speed of social media feeds, they face greater pressures.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

Friends and family describe Wolfe as a force of nature, often dressed in camouflage shorts and ready with stories of his travels, fishing expeditions and the objects surrounding him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Rather than treating the inductive effect as an influence that gradually travels along a chain of atoms, the team's interpretation confines it to the bond directly connected to the relevant atom in a neutral molecule.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

That substitution was a clever one by Maresca and brave too, because while Ndiaye is better than Cherki defensively, he is also a ball-carrier who travels with the ball better too.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

He travels incognito and assumes one disguise after another.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

During the mission, the four astronauts ultimately traveled farther into space than anyone before them.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

The revisionist approach of “Six Wives” has traveled beyond a scholarly audience: Portraits of the queens such as those in Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’s musical “Six” owe much to Mr. Starkey’s perspective.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

In the month before his arrest, Love traveled to New Mexico, California, Oregon, Nevada, Utah and Idaho to meet with women, according to investigators.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

One engineer, who traveled with Kao to D.C. to explain the technical side of a project, recalled being sent out of the room once the subject of money came up.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

They had often traveled to Washington from their home base in Denver, Colorado, and they knew the mountain well.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

We travelled to Taiz from Aden in the south, where Yemen's internationally recognised Presidential Leadership Council and government are based.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

The Pope then travelled to Lourdes, where he prayed in the grotto where the Virgin Mary was believed to have appeared in the 19th century.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

"There is a profound unfairness in this," says Marie Šabacká, a Czech glacier ecologist who travelled to Puncak Jaya last March in a bid to be among the last scientists to study Papua's "eternal snow".

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

The debris travelled about 20 kilometres, dropping 1,700 metres at Rasuwagadhi in only seven minutes, said Sudan Bikash Maharjan, a geologist with the Kathmandu-based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development.

From Barron's

Time be­came distance for me in the way it is for all mortals—I travelled down the road of life—and I did other things with my fingers than try to measure latitude.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

Police received a call shortly after midnight Sunday about three suspicious vehicles apparently traveling toward RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, England, near the southern Welsh border.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Its presence suggests that Lady 56 may have completed one of medieval Europe's most famous pilgrimages, traveling thousands of kilometers across the continent to the western edge of Christian Europe before eventually returning home.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026

The students were traveling from Guerrero state to a protest in Mexico City.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

“So when I was traveling and doing all of the filming, the director was asking me questions, and there’s some private questions that I will answer that people never heard before,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

It would be dangerous, traveling into the forest now, when the four realms would soon rise to the peak of their powers.

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

Armed officers detained the group in the early hours after a call to emergency services about three "suspicious vehicles which appeared to be travelling towards the air base", London's Metropolitan Police said in a statement.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Hayle in Cornwall is home to a range of independent businesses that rely on regular deliveries, tourism and customers travelling from across the region.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

The Mercedes was still travelling at 63mph at the time of the crash and three passengers were inside.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Husband and wife Christopher and Janine Barton, from Barnsley, who were both travelling on the motorcycle, also died in the crash.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

“There are few people travelling this time of year,” he said, glancing up at the windows of the sleeping car above them.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie




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