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1
a short trip for pleasure
- our weekend excursions have encompassed virtually all parts of our home state
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2
a departure from the subject under consideration
- the professor's frequent and sometimes far-ranging excursions in his lectures are the stuff of campus legend
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“Excursion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excursion. Accessed 22 Oct. 2021.
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The first known use of excursion was circa 1587
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