whistle-stop tour
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Britain's King Charles paid homage to fallen soldiers and reflected on colonial atrocities in Guyana during a whistle-stop tour of the former colony on Friday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
The lesson of 1948 isn’t that a whistle-stop tour guarantees success.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
So there's a third destination on this whistle-stop tour – Iqaluit, the capital of Canada's northernmost territory of Nunavut and homeland of its Inuit people.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2025
A whistle-stop tour of Lincoln’s body is framed as a flashy PR strategy.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024
“She does that whistle-stop tour in the very hostile South and does it beautifully,” Porter said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2023
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