traverse
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The bridge pinches off faster than light could traverse it, rendering it non-traversable.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
Feel this, for instance, when Harry and pals traverse the moving staircase.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
Thankfully that never happened thanks to the ship’s stabilizers, allowing me to traverse sea ice, view an unsuccessful polar bear hunt, and photograph wildlife from whales to walruses in comfort.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
Shipping traffic remains throttled in the Strait of Hormuz, a trade route off Iran’s coast that fully a third of the world’s seagoing oil exports traverse in a normal year.
From Slate • Mar. 11, 2026
The giant metal “drift tubes” suspended inside the cylinder, which the deuteron beam would traverse, each weighed several tons.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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