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Recent Examples of hitchhike
The first incident describes an alleged rape in 1971 when the plaintiff, then a 14-year-old student, was sent on a hitchhiking errand by a school dormitory counselor to purchase groceries from a nearby Kosher grocery store, Shapiro’s.
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Glynis Kazanjian, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2025
Rahill hitchhiked across the country to upstate New York for his sister’s graduation.
—Uma Raja, Sun Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2025
Prosecutors said Grissom, an Arkansas long-haul truck driver who had a lengthy criminal record, picked up Johns, who was hitchhiking, on his way to Oklahoma City to apply for a job.
—arkansasonline.com, 21 Mar. 2025
There were always people hitchhiking on I-80, hoping for a ride across the bridge.
—Nick Newman, IndieWire, 7 Mar. 2025
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Glynis Kazanjian, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2025
Rahill hitchhiked across the country to upstate New York for his sister’s graduation.
—Uma Raja, Sun Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2025
Prosecutors said Grissom, an Arkansas long-haul truck driver who had a lengthy criminal record, picked up Johns, who was hitchhiking, on his way to Oklahoma City to apply for a job.
—arkansasonline.com, 21 Mar. 2025
There were always people hitchhiking on I-80, hoping for a ride across the bridge.
—Nick Newman, IndieWire, 7 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hitchhike
Verb
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Load it with lumber, hitch a trailer, or even drive into a strong headwind, and that figure can drop faster than your enthusiasm on a Monday morning.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
13 May 2025
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Instead, women’s football has been hitched to the Festival Girl Power Summer brandwagon.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
13 May 2025
Verb
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It is now applied to anyone who has not visited the shower trailer and is desperately trying to bum a cig.—
Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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Grant invites Dina on the one-on-one, leaving the rest of the women feeling like this: Even though they’re bummed, the women keep their comments positive.—
Kristen Baldwin,
EW.com,
18 Feb. 2025
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“Hitchhike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hitchhike. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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