stopover
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She knew her son’s journey to the Ukrainian border had a stopover in Moscow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
On the way to Switzerland, on a stopover in Doha, he woke at 4 a.m. to write his Davos speech in a single two-hour sitting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Given the new route is expected to cost about 20% more than its current Sydney to London offering with a stopover, he doesn't think it will be a flight he'll catch anytime soon.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
Lake Kahokugata is also a key stopover location along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 22, 2026
On a Bangkok stopover en route to Manila, he’d bought a number of Thai music cassettes, which he played over and over again at night while he was going over games.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
But, I’m trying to avoid stopovers in Dubai or Qatar in case of cancellation or further disruption, but that is making it trickier to plan, too.
From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026
The military flights to the Altiplano prison required stopovers to pick up men from across Mexico.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
Scientists have tracked the virus along migratory routes and stopovers, among wild birds in rural areas and commercial poultry operations and, most recently, among cattle on dairy farms.
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2024
All of which results in an oddity: The path to Cooperstown often ran through Brooklyn or Los Angeles, but most were mere stopovers that tainted the back of Hall of Fame baseball cards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2024
Aside from the occasional refueling stopovers of Pan American World Airways planes, nothing interesting ever happened there.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
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