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Recent Examples of road-trip
Bad Nature is a dark romp of a book, a road-trip novel propelled by a revenge plot.
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Gabrielle Bellot, Literary Hub, 30 Mar. 2026
Waffle House With its bright yellow signs and 24/7 diner lights, Waffle House is an iconic Southern road-trip beacon with Georgia roots that’s been serving up comforting plates for decades.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2026
The clamp is strong enough to grab the tip of a ski for ground-up action shots, a sled for POV runs, a roof rack for road-trip footage, or even a tree branch for drive-by ski shots.
—Graham Averill, Outside, 24 Feb. 2026
The plan on file calls for a 74,000-square-foot store, roughly 120 fueling positions and room for a serious road-trip crowd.
—Lucciana Choueiry, Austin American Statesman, 13 Nov. 2025
Gabrielle Bellot, Literary Hub, 30 Mar. 2026
Waffle House With its bright yellow signs and 24/7 diner lights, Waffle House is an iconic Southern road-trip beacon with Georgia roots that’s been serving up comforting plates for decades.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2026
The clamp is strong enough to grab the tip of a ski for ground-up action shots, a sled for POV runs, a roof rack for road-trip footage, or even a tree branch for drive-by ski shots.
—Graham Averill, Outside, 24 Feb. 2026
The plan on file calls for a 74,000-square-foot store, roughly 120 fueling positions and room for a serious road-trip crowd.
—Lucciana Choueiry, Austin American Statesman, 13 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for road-trip
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The group chat comes to life, the grill gets dusted off, and meals migrate outdoors.—
Phoebe Fry,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
25 Apr. 2026
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But this involves submitting an application that includes a detailed plan to migrate their manufacturing to the US and justifying why manufacturing needs to be sourced outside the country in the short-term.—
Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
23 Apr. 2026
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There’s also The Italian Restaurant located within the 6,100-square-foot entertainment complex that serves classic Italian comfort dishes (during idle times while dining, kids can feel free to jaunt toward the arcade for a round of air hockey before the plate of rigatoni is served).—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 Apr. 2026
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The move breaks a record previously held by Coldplay for most shows in a calendar year; the British group achieved a 10 show stand back in 2024 for the band’s Music of the Spheres jaunt.—
Thomas Smith,
Billboard,
28 Jan. 2026
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Festival history Founded in 1932 as a street fair, Festival of Nations became a tradition for the students bused in on field trips and for the general public in Minnesota.—
Kathryn Kovalenko,
Twin Cities,
10 Apr. 2026
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People bus in from surrounding neighborhoods and towns.—
Alexis Marshall,
NPR,
3 Apr. 2026
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Reynolds was dressed in a safari hat, as if prepared to wrangle any animal that happened to wander in off the Santa Monica Freeway.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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While the other males in the Willowbank Wildlife Reserve’s Kea group spend lots of time squabbling and making threat displays, Bruce is free to wander the aviary and monopolize feeding stations and prime perches, the study reports.—
Elizabeth Anne Brown,
Scientific American,
20 Apr. 2026
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My father roamed from the Beverly Hills Hilton to Chateau Marmont, arguing the case for his best Chardonnays.—
Maddie Connors,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2026
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The neighborhood Situated at 6,300 feet on a mountain summit, above forests where Himalayan bears and wild boar like to roam and where the lammergeyers soar, feels like the rooftop of the world.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Rahm motored along, and so did his Legion XIII team, which won for the first time this year.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
19 Apr. 2026
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The Route 66 Car Museum takes you on a century-long trip through automotive history; its collection of more than 75 classic cars includes the kind of models that motored down the Mother Road in its heyday.—
Ginger Crichton,
Midwest Living,
12 Apr. 2026
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Nearly 100,000 visitors pilgrimage to the area annually to witness a forest canopy cloaked in orange-and-black wings.—
Jen Murphy,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Mar. 2026
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Several hundred of them pilgrimage to Arizona each February for the I Heart Pluto Festival.—
David Allan,
CNN Money,
3 Mar. 2026
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The offices of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance had people of all ages on Wednesday night waiting for the end of the nightly Ramadan fast, from children sitting at tables doing math homework to cab drivers just getting off their shifts.—
Katherine Koretski,
CNN Money,
20 Mar. 2026
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The hotel’s stretch of A1A isn’t the most interesting so most guests opt to either keep to the property’s upscale amenities, cab it to South Beach (which is 15 minutes away), or go north to the chichi enclaves of Surfside and Bal Harbour for shopping and dining.—
Sara Liss,
Condé Nast Traveler,
12 Jan. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Road-trip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/road-trip. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.
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