as in to travel
to come or be together as friends
they began to pal around after discovering that they both had kids on the same soccer team
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Potter said the whole goal behind Thrifty Traveler is to help show people how to travel more for less.—
Ross Raihala,
Twin Cities,
31 May 2026 -
But soft bananas don’t travel well.—
Aldo Svaldi,
Denver Post,
31 May 2026
Verb
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Whole genome sequencing linked his illness to the outbreak strain associated with The Kebab Shop beef kofta, according to the lawsuit.—
Andrea Flores,
Los Angeles Times,
31 May 2026
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Animals commonly associated with rabies include skunks, foxes, coyotes and raccoons.—
Michael Sinkewicz,
FOXNews.com,
31 May 2026
Verb
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As of Thursday, Barberena bonded out of the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.—
Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
4 June 2026
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Samara told me that the two of you bonded over the fact that Radio Silence killed you both in Scream movies.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
4 June 2026
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My father was running the skid steer outside, clearing the snow, leaving dirty white mounds to either side of the driveway that led from the house out to the range road.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2026
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) will advance to the general election to run America’s second-most-populous city, the Associated Press projected early Wednesday, as Republican reality TV star Spencer Pratt led the challengers vying to compete against her in November.—
Hannah Knowles,
Washington Post,
3 June 2026
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Portraits of the Hobhouse family, who lived here for more than two centuries, hang alongside tapestry wall trophies in the drawing room, while the teal bar mixes original cornicing with vibrant bamboo chairs.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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From Stonewall’s 1969 uprising to today’s golf tournaments, human rights summits and bar crawls, Pride events in Los Angeles, New York and global cities mix festival energy with defiance.—
Geoff Mulvihill,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2026
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Akindahunsi is not believed to be connected to prior incidents at or around the UCLA campus, Richard Mejia, director of emergency communications, said in a statement.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2026
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The company reviewed its safety protocols this week in response to the situation at GKN, which is not connected to Arkema.—
Jason Henry,
Oc Register,
30 May 2026
Verb
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These plays all scratch the same exact itch of, say, watching Bachelorette hunks get hooked up to a lie detector or watching Mike White whine about the lack of fine cuisine on Survivor.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2026
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Now Moncrief is looking for partners to help her fund the roughly $2 billion more needed to hook up the well, build a processing plant—and, ideally, drill five more super-deep wells.—
Christopher Helman,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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Guests celebrating Giant included American Vogue Editor Chloe Malle as well as theater producers Tom Kirhady, Lucas McMahon, and Greg Nobile, who sipped on wine and champagne and dined on light bites whilst mingling and talking Tony prospects.—
Chris Murphy,
Vanity Fair,
29 May 2026
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It is also written with classical punctuation, whereby a paragraph or even an entire story might be written across the duration of a single period, the narration mingling with character voices that ifntrude unannounced.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 May 2026
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“Pal (around).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pal%20%28around%29. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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