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as in to traverse
to make one's way through, across, or over Jack Kerouac's celebrated novel about penniless free spirits peregrinating the United States

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Verb
  • Disney's Parr House overlooks Cotino Bay, a massive body of water that guests will also be able to traverse via different types of watercraft.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Oct. 2025
  • There is also a dancing thread, taking the shape of the Quarona factory and circling the globe before arriving in New York, where a Loro Piana truck with raw fiber bales traverses the facade.
    David Moin, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The only surefire way to avoid this modern-day traveler's burnout is by taking the path less traveled.
    Travel + Leisure, Travel + Leisure, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Law previously shared updates of Kinley as a baby, including the two of them traveling, playing together and dressing up.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Migrants attempt to cross the Mediterranean from North Africa and try to enter Europe to claim asylum along the Italian coast.
    Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Gavin Sawchuk may or may not have crossed the goal line on a shovel pass.
    Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
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  • There is trash and pollutants from the tourists and gravel has been mined from the area to make trekking routes for people, disturbing the places where females may have laid their eggs, researchers said.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Black Diamond Pursuit Carbon Z Trekking Poles Over rocks and steep gravel and through the edelweiss, these trekking poles were there for me.
    Anna Fiorentino, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Without an excellent performance from the Italian, Spurs would doubtless be travelling back to north London following a second defeat in four days.
    Elias Burke, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Passmore explains the mix of personal reflection and historical storytelling in the book which follows the main character, a version of himself, time-traveling through a century of the Black radical tradition.
    Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Based on Swift's blunt response, don't expect the Grammy-winning musician to follow in the footsteps any time soon of other celebrities like Katy Perry and William Shatner who have voyaged beyond Earth's atmosphere.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
  • And with her last-day outfit ready to go, she gets set to voyage home feeling centered, not chaotic.
    Alesandra Dubin, Southern Living, 2 Oct. 2025
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  • Footage that has now gone viral shows Herrera happily pumping her fists in the air and walking to the front of the stage to join the finalists, while Deane suddenly paused between names.
    Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
  • These are adults with baggage, unable to walk away from their pasts.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In 2015, Garrett and Jessica Gee sold all of their belongings in order to journey around the world for five months with their two young children in tow.
    Sari Hitchins, Parents, 24 Oct. 2025
  • An Australian schoolteacher journeys to Indonesia after ending her engagement, where a reunion with her first love and connection with his enigmatic best friend force her to choose between nostalgia and a new future.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
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“Peregrinate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peregrinate. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.

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