walking

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Hopefully it will be remembered as the giant push that took humanity one small step closer to walking on the lunar surface again.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

More than 80 years after he was created in Albert Camus’s 1942 novella “The Stranger,” Meursault is still the same chilling prophet of alienation, a walking caricature of emotionlessness who is nevertheless spellbinding.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

In video released by the department Monday, Valencia is shown exiting the police station, walking to the front of the station and getting into the back of an SUV and shutting the door behind him.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

"For example, in the case of a child undergoing sildenafil treatment, the walking distance increased tenfold, from 500 to 5,000 meters," as Prof. Markus Schuelke explains.

From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026

Sometimes, after the long hours of walking through the darkness of the countryside, when we were all hungry and cold and tired, and the night seemed never-ending, Mutti would get us singing.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo