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journey

[jur-nee] / ˈdʒɜr ni /




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The finding suggests that Europe was an important part of the journey that eventually brought these predators to the southern continents, where some of their descendants became dominant hunters.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

Getting a toy onto the shelves in the US requires both a lot of work and a long journey.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

At the funeral service on Wednesday, patriotic songs blaring, the city's deputy mayor Nguyen Manh Cuong said authorities "will not overlook any opportunity or method to continue the journey of searching for the fallen comrades".

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

I can listen, I can build, I can take you on a journey, I can make you think this is a bad joke, but it’s actually a good joke.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

The shutters of the Senate building were being thrown open, and a host of men and women in overalls moved to attend to it, checking for damage from the journey.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Long lines of stationary cars and buses clogged major roads on Friday as commuters sought alternate routes, with some forced to continue their journeys on foot.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

The more journeys you take in electric vehicles, the less likely you are to become motion sick as your body adjusts, Golding says.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

One reason Devitt is still bullish on Amazon is that he believes customers are still likely to start their shopping journeys on Amazon’s site, even as AI agents proliferate.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

"When we plan for longer journeys in space - for example to Mars countermeasures may be needed to mitigate negative effects of space travel on the intestines," says Giorgia La Barbera.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

The stories would be short journeys from the mythical point of my mind to some wildly satisfying and morally logical end.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

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

Of the 25 invited, 19 women journeyed to Albuquerque.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson

Evan Mills, a financial advisor at Scholar Advising who works with SpaceX employees, previously told MarketWatch that many of those employees believe in the company’s long-term vision, which includes journeying to Mars.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

That’s a worthy destination for the journeying Mr. Burnham.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

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

He says that many of them were thirsty, starving or had rotten feet after journeying into Evros.

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026

We ate almost all our meals in the drawing room, journeying to the dining car only on those infrequent occasions when Mother yielded to our complaints that scurvy was threatening to set in.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey




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