journey
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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
It was Tolo’s idea to take the journey public.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Author Gabrielle Korn discusses “Long Island Girls,” a novel tracking a queer millennial’s journey from AOL Instant Messenger-era youth to adulthood in a changing media landscape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Bellingham could be said to be on a redemption journey of his own since starring in England's run to the Euro 2024 final, where they lost to Spain.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
They held up their torch to Allun and watched him raise his in answer and turn away to begin his lonely journey back to the cave entrance.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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The big-hitting pair broke through on the WTA Tour around the same time, but their journeys have been very different.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 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
During their heyday, they broke up long road journeys much as Cracker Barrel does in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
“Where have your journeys taken you?” one of them asked, a man who seemed the leader.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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These resonated, she wrote, after "my daughter and I journeyed 10 years with only each other".
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 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
I’d journeyed 6,500 miles from my home in Nashville, and I was here to win.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026
Who are you after you finish something this magnificent—in constructing it you have also journeyed through it, to the other side.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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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
The film moves beyond the climate crisis to the increase in climate refugees, which Fox underscores by starting with Americans, including victims of the Paradise blaze, before journeying around the globe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 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
All of this searching, seeking, journeying, finding a sense of self and a sovereign self, all that stuff comes from a little hole, a little bit of lack in her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
‘We are journeying east and cannot go further tonight.’
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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