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travel

[trav-uhl] / ˈtræv əl /




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Reports that the U.S. is considering easing some tanker sanctions in a bid to bring down freight prices is helping lift U.S. crude, which has farther to travel to European markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

This behavior, known as one-dimensional pinning-free vortex flow, means the vortices can travel along a defined path without encountering the usual obstacles that restrict their movement.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

If he survives the test against Hull, Arbeloa will face his third promoted side in a row, as Fulham travel to Championship winners Coventry City in the league next weekend.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Hypersonic missiles travel at more than five times the speed of sound and can manoeuvre mid-flight, making them significantly harder to track and intercept.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

“Oh yes, they were the masters of that trade! They’d travel the river and the creeks, set up camp on sandbanks from village to village, harvest all the clams they could find, and move on.”

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

I figure we have a few big travels left in us before large expenditures stop.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

The research demonstrates that appropriately prepared light can develop this behavior naturally as it travels, without requiring those additional optical components.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

At a Georgia location opened in 2024, food travels from an elevated kitchen to employees below on a conveyor system designed to deliver a meal every six seconds.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

While Liverpool have won twice on their travels this season, they now sit ninth in the league - and their main issue seems fairly clear.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

“The only sea passage from the PersianGulf to the Gulf of Oman and then out to sea. Twenty-one percent of the world’s oil travels through the narrow passage.”

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

I traveled to New York, Dallas and back since last week’s newsletter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

She also had a close friend who traveled with her overseas for a vacation during the worst of the breakouts, and mentioned in passing that she’d never even noticed Montalbo’s acne.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

The Program on Extremism has identified 83 American adults who traveled to Syria or Iraq since 2011 and were affiliated with jihadist groups there.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

In 1959, physicists Yakir Aharonov and David Bohm predicted that a charged particle could be affected by magnetic flux even if it traveled entirely outside the region containing the magnetic field.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

Block after block they traveled, but the brave little ship stayed in view the whole time, just as the moon does.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Somporn Yamyong, 62, travelled from rice-rich central Suphan Buri province to draw attention to years of debt and meagre earnings.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Dream rock band Fathom travelled roughly 700km across Australia to play nine shows, setting a new Guinness World Record for most concerts performed in 12 hours across multiple cities.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

At 17, she is alleged to have travelled to an IS-controlled area of Syria in late 2016 or early 2017, via Russia and Turkey.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Italian police say the actual arrest warrant was only issued on 18 August after he had travelled south and left Poland, suggesting the Germans were not sure their neighbours would co-operate and detain him.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Dark seams radiated outwards like a shotgun blast of ink, as if Nico’s body were trying to expel all the shadows he’d travelled through.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

Anyone can be vulnerable, including while traveling, or with a cross-lingual medical team.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

For a time, Quaid and Savoie were traveling back and forth between Los Angeles and Nashville, but following the 2025 California wildfires, they decided to pull the plug on life on the West Coast.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

She also covered Texas veterans and the military, traveling to Iraq for the Chronicle, and documenting the stories of Houston’s Arab and Muslim refugee communities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

“For the safety of the traveling public and the workers on the roadway, we ask that the public follow all detour and speed limit signs in the area,” Smith said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

But he was also a man who had been traveling for days without rest or food.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

The BBC's Evan Davis, who was travelling through the Eurotunnel to Calais at the time of the incident, witnessed blue light vehicles "concentrated on one of the platforms" as he entered France.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

In 2017, British Airways apologised to a family travelling from Vancouver to London, after they were left covered in bug bites from an overnight flight.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

After travelling to meet Lewis during Pride Cymru, she visited several places.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

AFP reporters travelling from Pensacola to nearby Destin saw relatively minor damage, with electricity workers repairing power lines along mostly clear roads.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

Poirot passed along the corridor, a somewhat slow progress, as most of the people travelling were standing outside their carriages.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie


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