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sojourn

[soh-jurn, soh-jurn, soh-jurn] / ˈsoʊ dʒɜrn, ˈsoʊ dʒɜrn, soʊˈdʒɜrn /
NOUN
brief travel; visit
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Two of the astronauts will get into Starship HLS and descend to the moon’s surface for a roughly one-week sojourn.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025

Or to honesty, as a rule, though he insists that this account of his disastrous Venetian sojourn is genuine.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

Their Polish guide during this sojourn relates that they seemed “like space aliens” walking the streets, the first tangible proof to Poles that punk rock was real.

From Salon • Jul. 22, 2025

He was back in Zimbabwe colours in late 2020, a "better bowler" for his sojourn in England.

From BBC • May 21, 2025

Taking a break in the Tinian officers’ club with Serber and Phil Morrison, a theoretical physicist from Berkeley, he remembered Ryokichi Sagane and his two-year sojourn at the Rad Lab.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik