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The book folds together his dual life, Deadhead kid hitchhiking to a concert and the scale-up CEO advising founders burning through growth curves never before seen in tech.
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Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2025
Having been run out of the movie theater for entry without payment and refusing to go back to his abusive home, a 12-year-old boy (Miles Ekhardt) sucks fiercely on his emotional support pacifier while trying to hitchhike his way out of town.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
His journey involved freighters, hitchhiking and about any means of transportation available that was not an airplane or rental car.
—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
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Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2025
Having been run out of the movie theater for entry without payment and refusing to go back to his abusive home, a 12-year-old boy (Miles Ekhardt) sucks fiercely on his emotional support pacifier while trying to hitchhike his way out of town.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
His journey involved freighters, hitchhiking and about any means of transportation available that was not an airplane or rental car.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hitchhike
hitch
Verb
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The cab would be abandoned and the trailer would be hitched to another truck, court documents show.—
Jim Woods,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Feb. 2026
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After Season 9 ended with no couples getting hitched, will Season 10 finish up the same way?—
Rachel Choy,
Refinery29,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Hitchhike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hitchhike. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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