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shuttle

[shuht-l] / ˈʃʌt l /


VERB
travel back and forth
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Planes often fly in a continuous shuttle while retardant is laid along the edges of the fire and ground crews attack the flames directly.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

Creating a proton shuttle could enhance the process, while removing the shuttle could reduce or prevent it.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

The RAC acknowledged UK airports generally offered other options for dropping people off at locations further from the terminal, sometimes with free shuttle buses.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Archer’s primary focus is the development of commercial air taxis that it says will function like flying Ubers to shuttle passengers over congested cities.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

The shuttle vibrates as we lift to a hover.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Captain Tracy Batteese shuttles people and goods to and from Isle au Haut on the mail boat, which also functions as the island’s de facto ambulance.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

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

Because the light is still on in my room, I can see that someone has drawn space shuttles on the cupcakes with frosting.

From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick

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

For six weeks, she was shuttled with other women between detention sites, including al-Mina al-Bary, a bus depot near the market where the UN said hundreds were held in about 70 shipping containers.

From Barron's Mar. 22, 2026

As a child, she was shuttled from school to dance recitals by her mother, while her motorsport-loving father took her brother to the local race circuit.

From BBC Mar. 13, 2026

A few Ole Miss assistants he hired away shuttled between the two schools to recruit at one and prepare the other for playoff games.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 9, 2026

I warmed bricks and shuttled them back and forth from the stove.

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys

Elon Musk’s Tesla robotaxis and Amazon-owned Zoox are shuttling customers autonomously, but are nowhere near the scale at which Waymo operates.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 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

There followed a largely single-parent childhood spent shuttling between the U.S. and Japan.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 8, 2026

Scott hopes this shuttling around of his stem cells, a procedure that costs patients $10,000, will rejuvenate his 82-year-old body and ward off the effects of aging.

From Slate Mar. 30, 2026

Her intention was to spend November and December shuttling between the Italian islands, in some off-season rental, completely alone.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee




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