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voyage

[voi-ij] / ˈvɔɪ ɪdʒ /


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A U.S. cruise ship on a three-year voyage has suspended its journey in Cambodia due to high fuel costs, forcing hundreds of passengers to disembark.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

By the time Stewart’s final voyage with “Star Trek” debuted in 2020, Picard was less of a Starfleet hero than a wise man exhausted by politics and cruelty.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

They had been promised the voyage of a lifetime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

The archaeologists say the ship started its voyage from somewhere along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

At the end of the war, life returned to normal, and Shackleton began a world tour, speaking to audiences in big cities and outback villages about Endurance’s doomed voyage.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

Their voyages were iconic: The former piggybacked atop a Boeing 747, past the Hollywood Sign and Griffith Observatory, before landing at LAX.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

When it resumed voyages to Svalbard in June last year after a long hiatus, it enabled direct passage from Murmansk in Russia’s High North.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

But with many vessels switching off their AIS before crossing Hormuz, analysts have to reconstruct the voyages using satellite imagery and other clues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Leo has taken no long voyages this summer, instead venturing to Pavia, Lampedusa and Assisi for short visits.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

Michaux’s voyages took him from Florida to Hudson’s Bay; the heroic Nuttall ventured as far as the shores of Lake Superior, going much of the way on foot for want of funds.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

For the last 10 days, four astronauts have been making history, travelling further into space than humans have been before as they voyaged to the Moon and back.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026

At some point between 21,000 and 16,000 years ago, humans voyaged into the region, probably traveling along the coast.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 16, 2023

However, we have voyaged far enough into spring so that even failure to match the averages leaves us warm enough to discourage complaint.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2022

When Shackleton and his men voyaged to Antarctica, they entered a frozen world.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2022

In his opinion the man most likely to have news would be Menelaus, who had voyaged all the way to Egypt before coming home.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

So we get why Ross opts to normalize voyaging alone instead of speaking to common fears about it.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2025

Unsure what it would be like voyaging with so many youngsters, she booked a short four-day journey.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2024

After Charles Darwin happened across “vast rings of coral-rock” while voyaging through the southern Pacific Ocean on the Beagle, he wrote that upon seeing them, “everyone must be struck with astonishment.”

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 22, 2023

The news outlet noted that Justice Thomas has taken 38 destination vacations that included voyaging on a yacht, traveling via private jets and even helicopters.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 10, 2023

In particular, the Tongan Archipelago lies close enough to the Fijian, Samoan, and Wallis Archipelagoes to have permitted regular voyaging between archipelagoes, and eventually to permit Tongans to undertake the conquest of Fiji.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond


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