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Recent Examples of grand tour
La Vuelta is a 21-day race and one of cycling's three grand tours, along with the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia.
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Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Sep. 2025
And to take Taylor’s bag from her hands with the confidence of a hostess just months after bumping her carry-on through a grand tour of arrondissements.
—Megan Angelo, Glamour, 11 Sep. 2025
And Roglič, who has crashed out of several grand tours in recent years, appeared happy to just finish the race.
—Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC news, 27 July 2025
Double Olympic gold-medalist Faulkner is the reigning national road racing champion and will look to add to her three grand tour stage wins.
—Jessica Hopkins, New York Times, 25 July 2025
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Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Sep. 2025
And to take Taylor’s bag from her hands with the confidence of a hostess just months after bumping her carry-on through a grand tour of arrondissements.
—Megan Angelo, Glamour, 11 Sep. 2025
And Roglič, who has crashed out of several grand tours in recent years, appeared happy to just finish the race.
—Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC news, 27 July 2025
Double Olympic gold-medalist Faulkner is the reigning national road racing champion and will look to add to her three grand tour stage wins.
—Jessica Hopkins, New York Times, 25 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grand tour
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In a city with a constant gaze towards progress, The Milestone seemed like yet another relic left behind.—
Zach Dennis,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Jan. 2026
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While a lot of progress has been made since Zadroga's passing, Barasch said trips to Capitol Hill are still necessary to fight for more work to be done.—
Lisa Rozner,
CBS News,
7 Jan. 2026
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This year, agents and studio executives who made the pilgrimage to Utah were able to catch up on their beauty sleep.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2026
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And yet over the past three decades, dozens of English-language news outlets have made a pilgrimage to it, often more than once.—
Eve Fairbanks,
The Dial,
27 Jan. 2026
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Gemini can now pull context from emails, schedules, and travel searches to help users plan trips, draft messages, or find relevant information faster.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Jan. 2026
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And in a scientific article that was just published in late 2025, it was incidentally caught during a recreational fishing trip off the coast of northwestern Africa.—
Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Two days after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minnesota reportedly tackled a home caregiver from sub-Saharan Africa to the snowy pavement and took her away in a van, a close friend made the 1,400-mile journey to a controversial Texas detention facility where she’s being held.—
Ray Sanchez,
CNN Money,
30 Jan. 2026
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And then there’s the new DineAlley, which curates private culinary journeys across the Tasman Peninsula, giving guests behind-the-scenes access to working farms, vineyards, oyster sheds and distilleries that are otherwise difficult to visit on your own.—
Laura Begley Bloom,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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This year, Lindblad Expeditions marks the 60th anniversary of Lars Eric Lindblad’s first civilian expedition to Antarctica, the journey that helped define modern expedition travel.—
Laura Begley Bloom,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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The Dutch West India Company had sponsored an expedition to search for a southern continent, which was thought necessary to balance all the land north of the equator.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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While on a safari with Wilderness, the everyday world—and all of the stress that comes with it—recedes into the far, far distance.—
Condé Nast Traveler,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Jan. 2026
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Northern Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park makes for an incredible starter safari for first-time visitors to Africa.—
Nicholas DeRenzo,
Travel + Leisure,
13 Jan. 2026
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Hopefully there will be new quests also, though this isn’t mentioned anywhere.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Some of them are the product of the calendar, and others are the byproduct of brainstorming from teams’ marketing departments and their never-ending quest to keep fans interested during rebuilding seasons.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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Last year, country trio Rascal Flatts came roaring back to life with their first tour since 2019.—
Ross Raihala,
Twin Cities,
24 Jan. 2026
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Classic '90s placements Perhaps driven by the current ’90s and ’00s pop-culture renaissance—and all the cool, famous girlies on TikTok declaring the return of all things Y2K—belly-button rings and tongue piercings are embarking on their own comeback tour.—
Marianne Mychaskiw,
Allure,
24 Jan. 2026
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“Grand tour.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grand%20tour. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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