as in traversed
to make one's way through, across, or over
the hikers proceeded along the ridge for several hundred feet
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The Rule crossed $50 million-mark on the second day and $150-million-mark in ten days.—
Sweta Kaushal,
Forbes,
6 Jan. 2025 -
On Sunday, the FBI said its investigation has crossed state and international borders with agents following leads in several states and other countries.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA TODAY,
6 Jan. 2025
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Video footage captured at the scene of the shooting shows a person leaving a white Dodge Caravan and approaching a home on Hardesty Avenue, followed by a man identified as Thomas exiting a blue sedan and following him.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
5 Feb. 2025
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Even cuts to areas such as the administration's travel budget could prove problematic, as there are situations when officials need to go to different locations to ensure federal guidelines are being followed.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
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The Vikings, settling in the late eighth century, found the islands covered in prehistoric sites.—
Peter Ross,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 Jan. 2025
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Those subsidies became more generous under the American Rescue Plan Act in 2021 to ensure more Americans were covered during the COVID-19 pandemic.—
Ken Alltucker,
USA TODAY,
8 Jan. 2025
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And in a striking indictment, five of those seven women navigated not just the tech world, but also international borders, having immigrated to the United States.—
Gemma Allen,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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The researchers navigated this barrier by staging an SRPT in a magnetic crystal based on the interactions between two spin subsystems, creating a magnonic version of the phenomenon.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Proceeded (along).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proceeded%20%28along%29. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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