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jaunt

[jawnt, jahnt] / dʒɔnt, dʒɑnt /


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“Pretend You’re Dead” came off one extended jaunt in 2019, when the author spent five months in the country researching its trans history.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

Last fall I walked from the northern tip of Manhattan to Battery Park, a jaunt that was tiring but doable in about six hours.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

Meanwhile, songs like “Down South” brim with nostalgia for days gone by — in this instance, memories of a hitchhiking jaunt with Harrison.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

The astronauts on the International Space Station receive a dose of around 240 to 480 X-rays on a six-month jaunt up in the exosphere.

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2026

Paying tourists didn’t like to be jostled around quite that much, unless of course they were on an illegal jaunt to Disneyland.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer




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