as in travels
to take a trip especially of some distance
tourists pilgrimaging to all of the traditional destinations across Europe
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Elementary, middle and high school students throughout Broward, Miami-Dade, Monroe and Palm Beach counties are invited to compete to have their artwork displayed through a wrap on one of Feeding South Florida’s semi-trailer trucks — a 36-foot moving billboard that travels throughout the community.—
Christina Mayo,
Miami Herald,
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O’Connor said that skiers visiting the huts sometimes take an alternative route back, which travels up Euer Valley and has less exposure to avalanche terrain.—
Annette McGivney,
Outside,
19 Feb. 2026
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Book for shoulder season staycations or weekend trips from NYC and Boston.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 Feb. 2026
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Passengers will pay a surcharge based on their trips' distance and cabin.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Feb. 2026
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Harmon frequently treks through the desert, wearing ankle braces and an orange safety vest, chatting with Border Patrol agents who appear to have taken to her.—
Lila Seidman,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Feb. 2026
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Winter weather alerts are in effect for nearly 70 million people, stretching from the Plains to Maine as the storm treks east.—
CNN Meteorologist Briana Waxman,
CNN Money,
1 Dec. 2025
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Going through our tennis journeys together was incredibly special.—
Jay Plotkin,
Austin American Statesman,
18 Feb. 2026
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Tens of thousands make it into the country each year, the vast majority on dangerous sea journeys either from the Turkish coast to nearby Greek islands in the Aegean, or making the much longer Mediterranean crossing from north Africa to the southern Greek islands of Gavdos and Crete.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
18 Feb. 2026
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Zach Bryan is bringing one of this year’s biggest country music tours his With Heaven On Tour, which also features MJ Lenderman, to State Farm Stadium in September.—
Ed Masley,
AZCentral.com,
17 Feb. 2026
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The 100-acre limestone cavern has more than 17 miles of underground passageways and is home to Mega Zip Lines tour, Mega Quest ropes course, Mega Walking tours and Mega Tram tours.—
Kirby Adams,
Louisville Courier Journal,
12 Feb. 2026
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The Artemis 2 astronauts won't be landing, but will instead circle the moon on a 10-day trip to test systems and hardware for future expeditions to the surface.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
19 Feb. 2026
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These races and expeditions don't get any easier with time.—
Outside Online,
Outside Online,
18 Feb. 2026
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Focusing only on gains also says nothing about the nature of the journeys taken, the process travelers use to convert furtive motion into self-reinvention, and the places that assist or block these quests.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Feb. 2026
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Studying such a physically and philosophically inaccessible topic is fundamentally different from other types of science—those quests at least exist in our plane of space and time.—
Sarah Scoles,
Scientific American,
10 Feb. 2026
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Near vacant hotels have been shuttered and flights from Russia and Canada canceled as there is not enough jet fuel on the island for longer international flights.—
Patrick Oppmann,
CNN Money,
18 Feb. 2026
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The winds also gusted as high as 43 mph at San Diego International Airport, delaying 246 flights, and whipped up ocean waves that are expected to reach the 9- to 12-foot range this week at local beaches, potentially causing beach erosion.—
Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Feb. 2026
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“Pilgrimages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pilgrimages. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.
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