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shuttle

[shuht-l] / ˈʃʌt l /


VERB
travel back and forth
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The shuttle runs have helped the U.A.E. sustain production while neighboring countries faced shut-ins, Goh said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

People posted on social media, reporting "crazy queues" for the shuttle bus and blue flashing lights on the main road outside the stadium.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

Metro and will shuttle passengers and employees between the terminals, a new rental car center, parking lots and the rideshare lot.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

Hilton joined others who have criticised the lack of transport infrastructure around the stadium, with the nearest train station a mile's walk away and shuttle buses ferrying fans from the city centre.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

I place them each in their own sample bags, sending the drone back to the shuttle.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Graham shuttles off this mortal coil with no such vindication.

From Slate Jul. 13, 2026

Moxi – which shuttles medical supplies around hospitals – might respond by displaying its heart-shaped LED eyes and a beep beep greeting of its own.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

LA Metro is adding about 300 buses to its regular fleet to handle the additional demand, with shuttles servicing nine direct routes to SoFi Stadium, the site of eight matches, and various fan zones.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 7, 2026

At Denali, CEO Ryan Watts says that engineering receptor-mediated shuttles has been his life for 20 years.

From Barron's Jun. 3, 2026

Six shuttles a week came in from Haven City alone.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

A surreptitious airport catering truck secretly shuttled Trump to a waiting military plane, which flew him out instead.

From Slate Aug. 11, 2026

Instead of leaving on either that jet or “former” Air Force One, the president secretly hopped into an airport catering truck and shuttled to an Air Force C-32A, a smaller military plane.

From Salon Aug. 11, 2026

More than 31 million barrels of fuel and chemicals were shuttled between U.S. ports by foreign vessels.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 3, 2026

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi had held 26 calls with counterparts from relevant countries while Beijing's Middle East envoy had "shuttled across" the war-torn region, a foreign ministry spokesperson said.

From Barron's Apr. 10, 2026

My mom, Craig, and Maya were staying with us in the residence but had been packed into cars and shuttled off already to the night’s festivities.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

The ships are small, designed less for onboard revelry than for shuttling passengers from one port to another.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

“I left Paris thinking I’m going to goof off now,” Conlon explained, having for seven of his nine Paris years retained his positions in Cologne, shuttling between two exceptionally demanding jobs.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 2026

The talks themselves are expected to be indirect: the two delegations sitting in separate rooms with Pakistani officials shuttling proposals between them, mirroring the format used in earlier Oman-mediated rounds.

From Barron's Apr. 10, 2026

The Pakistani intermediaries who will be shuttling between the two delegations have a tough job on their hands.

From BBC Apr. 9, 2026

“I should wear a chauffeur’s cap for all the time I spend shuttling you and your brothers around.”

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan




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