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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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Despite the region’s industrial reputation, the Dunes are among the most biologically diverse parks in the nation, and thousands of sandhill cranes migrate through since a recent habitat restoration.—
Robert McCoppin,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Apr. 2026
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But the most important sighting of the mythical Stravinskian fowl might be the revival of Dance Theatre of Harlem’s 1982 version, migrating back to New York for the first time in more than twenty years.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2026
Verb
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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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The pig slobbers mud on my right leg as Grace jaunts away.—
Charles Trepany,
USA Today,
25 Nov. 2025
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People bus in from surrounding neighborhoods and towns.—
Alexis Marshall,
NPR,
3 Apr. 2026
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Under Cooper’s proposal, visitors would be bused from a parking lot in Bannockburn to the Highland Park Park District’s Heller Nature Center, which is immediately to the north of the former Jordan property.—
Bob Goldsborough,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Mar. 2026
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Hill was arrested in August after he was spotted wandering Ventura Boulevard in Los Angeles in his underwear and cowboy boots.—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
6 Apr. 2026
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During bouts of insomnia, Altman would wander by them in his pajamas.—
Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Instead, commissioners banned outdoor alcohol sales as well as the practice of allowing patrons to roam from bar to bar with cocktails in hand.—
Susannah Bryan,
Sun Sentinel,
9 Apr. 2026
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But each vessel, shares a similar platform and is meant to roam the high seas, with a 4,000-nautical-mile range that could carry its owner just about anywhere.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
9 Apr. 2026
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With water temperatures in the low 60’s and only four hours left to fish, Bennett and Shad motored over to a new spot on the west end of the lake where the water was shallower.—
Kubie Brown,
Outdoor Life,
19 Mar. 2026
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Aberg was 5 under through his opening four holes and motored his way around the TPC Sawgrass with one amazing shot after another.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
13 Mar. 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 neighborhood/area 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 13 Apr. 2026.
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