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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
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But perhaps the most serious rebuke to the liberal international order has come from inside the democracies, where populist parties have hitched economic grievances, anti-immigrant sentiments, and the loss of faith in their own elites and institutions to an authoritarian domestic turn.—
Margaret MacMillan,
The Atlantic,
30 Apr. 2025
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As flames advanced toward the Tel Aviv-to-Jerusalem highway, many people abandoned their cars and fled on foot or hitched rides with other vehicles heading in the opposite direction.—
Ibrahim Hazboun and Elena Becatoros,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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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 19 May. 2025.
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