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travel

[trav-uhl] / ˈtræv əl /




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Plenty stepped away to travel, start a business or focus on family.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

"We use national pricing across most of our shops however, this can vary in certain locations where costs are higher than average, such as travel hubs," they told the BBC in a statement.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

An American congressional delegation will travel to Turkey for the annual UN climate summit, a Democratic lawmaker said Wednesday, a day after his party's landslide midterm victory.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

But Donald, a three-time defensive player of the year, did so on the eve of the opener and did not travel for the first game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

I look at the base of the cat tree where Mom’s travel tote lays on its side.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

However, her around-the-world travels continued as she took part in medical trials before and after her diagnosis.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Visual information travels along the optic nerve to a structure called the optic chiasm.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

They will be able to greet the pontiff as the Popemobile travels one kilometer to get to the home.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

The 39-year-old lives in Tanque Verde and travels throughout south-central Arizona, delivering soda and snack foods to major retailers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026

Deydey usually talked about his travels, the places he’d seen and the people, the close calls and momentous encounters with animals, weather, other Anishinabeg, and best of all, ghosts.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

Last year, he traveled to Kyiv for discussions with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky concerning a Washington-backed proposal intended to bring an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

As the African and Arabian tectonic plates traveled northward and approached the final stages of their collision with Asia, the connections between these landmasses began to change.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

This guiding principle traveled through “The Next Generation” and subsequent movies, along with the recent Paramount+ “Star Trek” spinoff, “Star Trek: Picard.”

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

Virzi, a one-time doctoral candidate at UC San Diego studying clinical psychology, traveled to Pittsburgh in June 2024 to meet the twins and spend time with her best friend’s growing family.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Dr. Eloesser had traveled the world with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

The smaller bluestones travelled around 225km from west Wales with research suggesting a few were taken directly from another circle.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

The pair oversaw the ceasefire, travelled into Oleshky and were filmed speaking to residents together.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Gandhi, who travelled to the venue in an open-top jeep, said protesters were "not prepared to accept" the voter list removals.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

Nawrocki later travelled to the tribunal, where disagreements with newly elected judges further heightened tensions.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

Then we lay down side by side on the bed and Buddy sipped his wine while I read aloud "somewhere I have never travelled" and other poems from a book I'd brought.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

Because many children begin traveling earlier, the team believes the projected increase of approximately 2 billion dark commutes may substantially underestimate the actual impact.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

Some were traveling to funerals, weddings and family reunions that the poet laureate commemorated in a poem written in minutes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

It carries shopping traffic, people traveling to and from work, locals accessing schools and other travelers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Robbins has said that during roughly the first year to 18 months of her podcast, recording took place at the home and while traveling.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

He had been traveling by sights on the North Star.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

Since then, they have been on a slow march west across the country's northern landscape, according to the Australian government, travelling between 40 km and 60 km a year.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

It will go ahead without the Yamaha team, which has been advised against travelling from Japan.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Downing Street has defended sending the official UK government plane to Manchester to pick up Andy Burnham, rather than the prime minister travelling to London in advance of the flight.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Dart and Bartoli, who has a young family, are not travelling full-time together on tour, but there have been opportunities for them to work on the ground, particularly during this year's Grand Slam tournaments.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Her soul returned fully to her and nestled happily inside her skin, for this moment not travelling in the past where her children were nor to America to be with my father.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston


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