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[jur-nee] / ˈdʒɜr ni /




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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

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

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

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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