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Recent Examples of hitchhike
The original film details a three-year surfing tour that Metz took between 1958 and 1961, a journey that involved steamship-hopping, hitchhiking, every other possible manner of transportation across Europe, Australia and Africa.
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Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
Sometimes, seeds of invasive plants quietly hitchhike over from other countries in shipping containers, or on the shoes, clothing, and luggage of travelers.
—Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Aug. 2025
The three boys went to the Loop to watch a movie and were picked up by Hansen while hitchhiking home.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
Charlie hitchhikes to Wichita, but then, when Taylor Schilling’s Agent Annie looks at the car, hoping to find the now on-the-run Charlie, there’s nobody there.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 10 July 2025
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Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
Sometimes, seeds of invasive plants quietly hitchhike over from other countries in shipping containers, or on the shoes, clothing, and luggage of travelers.
—Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Aug. 2025
The three boys went to the Loop to watch a movie and were picked up by Hansen while hitchhiking home.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
Charlie hitchhikes to Wichita, but then, when Taylor Schilling’s Agent Annie looks at the car, hoping to find the now on-the-run Charlie, there’s nobody there.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 10 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hitchhike
Verb
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Her son, maybe six or seven years old, could effortlessly hitch himself up to the top of the park’s lampposts.—
Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
6 Sep. 2025
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The wagon, which was hitched to two horses, left the road and all eight passengers on board were ejected, authorities said.—
Sam Gillette,
PEOPLE,
4 Sep. 2025
Verb
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That’s what was bumming him out.—
Emily Longeretta,
Variety,
3 Sep. 2025
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To be this close over and over is really bumming me out.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Hitchhike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hitchhike. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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