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traverse

[trav-ers, truh-vurs] / ˈtræv ərs, trəˈvɜrs /




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The fact the Strait of Hormuz, the crucial oil shipping route, remains effectively closed, and the path to AI profitably remains similarly hard to traverse, seem like subjects for another day.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

“Neuromancer,” one of the defining cyberpunk novels, was published in 1988; that book imagines an interconnected, virtual reality world you can traverse by “jacking in.”

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2026

A plan was hatched to find two couples to traverse Europe—trying ranch with different foods, engaging with locals and filming themselves doing both.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

The bridge pinches off faster than light could traverse it, rendering it non-traversable.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

And because these people lived seven thousand miles south of the Bering Strait, a distance that presumably would have taken a long time to traverse, they almost certainly arrived before the ice-free corridor opened up.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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