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[jur-nee] / ˈdʒɜr ni /




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They’ve also written poems about Samba’s journey and held a school assembly in her honor.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

Fifty years after India's women entered international cricket, a journey that began on modest grounds across the country had reached its defining moment with a historic Test victory at the Home of Cricket.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

Many then pay several thousand dollars to smugglers known as coyotes who take them on a grueling journey across the Brazilian border deep in the Amazon rainforest.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 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

I suppose we must have been three weeks or so into our journey across Germany, and we were making much slower progress than Peter had expected.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

Council leader Jane Meagher warned commuters who use public transport to plan for their journeys to be disrupted.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

Unveiling a plaque at the Grand Union Canal, he said: "Sooner or later, all canal roads lead here, and all canal journeys end here."

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

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

Accelerated particles would strike this strip at the end of their spiral journeys, with their final energies to be measured by an electrometer wired to it.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

A group of U.S. executives also journeyed to Caracas to discuss potential investments.

From The Wall Street Journal May 28, 2026

The woman, a US citizen, journeyed halfway across the globe to reach remote Pitcairn Island after disembarking the cruise ship in Saint Helena, authorities said.

From Barron's May 15, 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

Misley Mandarin, one of the British-Chagossians who journeyed to the territory, said he had come "peacefully, respectfully, and without threat to anyone - simply to stand on our homeland again".

From BBC Feb. 20, 2026

But the sudden disappearance, then returning without a single soul...There was something brewing, a cauldron that the king had journeyed to stir.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

In a blaring nightclub in wartime Myanmar, partied-out revellers doze until dawn by the dancefloor, wary of journeying home despite the end of a post-coup curfew.

From Barron's Jun. 12, 2026

Today, the island can only be reached at low tide - and people are advised to check the tide times before journeying over.

From BBC Apr. 23, 2026

Earlier this week, the four astronauts on NASA’s Artemis II lunar mission rode their Orion craft into the record books, journeying farther beyond their home planet than any humans before them.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 10, 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

And in time, I may find myself his first mate whether I want to or not, journeying to points exotic so that I might make another dive, and another, and another.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman




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