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tourist

[toor-ist] / ˈtʊər ɪst /


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Tens of thousands of people were evacuated from the Cap Ferret peninsula tourist spot west of Bordeaux last month as wildfires were spreading across Gironde.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

Over the years, the ubiquity of “More Than a Feeling” unfairly categorized “Boston” as an arena-rock tourist trap.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

A navy vessel and other ships rushed in Wednesday to rescue over 100 people from a ferry on fire off the tourist island of Bali, officials said, in the second such incident in days.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

Sleepy villages that would normally never feature in a typical tourist itinerary have suddenly found themselves inundated with eclipse hunters from around the world.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

But he loved the excitement and influx of new people that came with the tourist season too.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Six tourists and a pilot have been killed after a helicopter crashed at Mount Ololokwe in central Kenya, air accident officials have told the BBC.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Pastry-hunting tourists are ruining this Italian mountain refuge.

From MarketWatch Aug. 19, 2026

The Philippine government has designated the roughly 260-square-mile area an economic development zone, pitching the bay’s tropical beaches and scuba diving on World War II shipwrecks to tourists.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

Neither Tennessee resident cops to having much interest in Nashville’s glitzy Lower Broadway district, where tourists stumble from one bar owned by a name-brand country star to another.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

Within a few weeks daily buses began to arrive from Reykjavik—sometimes two or three a day—filled with the gaping tourists that Bobby had so desperately wanted to avoid.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady




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