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Recent Examples of hitchhike
His journey involved freighters, hitchhiking and about any means of transportation available that was not an airplane or rental car.
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Corky Carroll, Oc Register, 18 Oct. 2025
What Hicks longs to do, in the face of these multidirectional threats to life and liberty, is persuade April to run away with him, hitchhiking from Wisconsin to who knows where, like a pair of Depression-era hoboes, out of range of anyone who wishes them ill.
—Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Now Kiki is spooked, walks right out of the party, and basically hitchhikes a ride with some invisible truck driver.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
Four years into his prison sentence, Manchester escaped from an Anson County prison and hitchhiked to Charlotte.
—Zach Dennis, Charlotte Observer, 8 Sep. 2025
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Corky Carroll, Oc Register, 18 Oct. 2025
What Hicks longs to do, in the face of these multidirectional threats to life and liberty, is persuade April to run away with him, hitchhiking from Wisconsin to who knows where, like a pair of Depression-era hoboes, out of range of anyone who wishes them ill.
—Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Now Kiki is spooked, walks right out of the party, and basically hitchhikes a ride with some invisible truck driver.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
Four years into his prison sentence, Manchester escaped from an Anson County prison and hitchhiked to Charlotte.
—Zach Dennis, Charlotte Observer, 8 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hitchhike
hitch
Verb
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By November, they were hitched.—
Sarah Hepola,
Dallas Morning News,
6 Jan. 2026
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With Colin and Penelope now happily hitched and raising their son, the new season focuses on Benedict Bridgerton (Luke Thompson) and his love story with Sophie (Yerin Ha), which unfolds at his mother's soiree of the year.—
Jessica Radloff,
Glamour,
31 Dec. 2025
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“Hitchhike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hitchhike. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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