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traveled 1 of 2

adjective

variants or travelled
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as in crowded

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verb

variants or travelled
past tense of travel
1
as in journeyed
to take a trip especially of some distance the couple loves to travel and has been to 34 countries

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2
as in traversed
to make one's way through, across, or over will travel the river for a while and then continue on land

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3
as in flew
to proceed or move quickly that racehorse can definitely travel

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4
as in associated
to come or be together as friends he traveled with a fast crowd when he was in college

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Recent Examples of traveled
Adjective
Aquarius January 20 – February 18 The path less traveled is calling to you. — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 20 Jan. 2024 The space definitely did not suit the couple’s style, which the designers described as California casual with traveled and Old World European elements. — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 22 Nov. 2022
Verb
An unvaccinated passenger with measles traveled earlier this month on Amtrak trains and buses from Chicago to multiple stops across California, state health officials said Friday evening. — Michael McGough, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2026 But in 1963, President Liu Shaoqi traveled to Indonesia and other Southeast Asian countries with his wife, Wang Guangmei, marking the first overseas trip by a Chinese leader accompanied by his wife. — Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for traveled
Recent Examples of Synonyms for traveled
  1. crowded
  2. journeyed
  3. traversed
  4. sped
  5. associated
  6. trod
  7. trekked
  8. followed
Adjective
  • Zipline is putting a fresh valuation on the increasingly crowded race to make drone delivery a mainstream part of American last-mile logistics networks, all while the regulatory system is still playing catch-up.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Some matches at the Asian Games have been played before the official opening to accommodate a crowded schedule which features more than 11,000 athletes, more than the Summer Olympics.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of crowded
Verb
  • Born in Portland, Oregon, in 1873, Lowe journeyed to China for his education, and then returned to America, moving between major western cities, first San Francisco, then Denver, on to Portland and Seattle.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026
  • The videos quickly went viral, with lines forming outside the hut as people journeyed to the site, eager to try one for themselves.
    — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of journeyed
Verb
  • The starry event has traversed the globe from New York City to London to Paris to LA and with each location the celebration of fashion, celebrity, and performance has reached new heights.
    — Glamour, Glamour, 15 Sep. 2026
  • To find their bodies, that afternoon Comella and other firemen traversed the steep, smoldering steel mountain using a series of ladders, a process not unlike the way trekkers negotiate the treacherous Khumbu ice fall at the base of Mount Everest.
    — Peter Wilkinson, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of traversed
Verb
  • Their payout timeline is also sped up to two years instead of the previous five.
    — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Lenexa police are investigating a fatal crash involving a woman who left a medical facility and sped away from officers who were checking on her, a police spokesperson said.
    — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of sped
Verb
  • The team measured 13 rare earth elements, including cerium, ytterbium and lanthanum, and examined whether exposure was associated with birth outcomes.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The plan assigns Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom continued responsibility at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, including fuel and maintenance support for Unit 1 and continuing construction work associated with Units 2 and 3.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of associated
Adjective
  • Johnny Carson joked about her breasts on The Tonight Show; countless others followed the same overly trodden path.
    — Debbie Millman, Time, 25 July 2026
  • Immigration experts are reporting a growing interest from American clients in relocating to lesser-trodden European destinations such as Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Poland, Albania and Estonia.
    — Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2026
Definition of trod
Verb
  • Rather than taking the dry way out and heading home on the 4 train, we all got caught up in a more southerly impulse and trekked to our friends’ new place down in Battery Park City.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Daniel talked with dozens of health officials and trekked to Maine and Louisiana for this eye-opening story.
    — O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of trekked
Verb
  • The move is the first in a string of major central bank decisions this week, with the Bank of England up next, and followed by the Bank of Japan on Friday.
    — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026
  • That study, being conducted by DRC and Doctors Without Borders, will give participants a shot of Ervebo, followed a month later by a shot of an experimental vaccine designed to protect against the Sudan version of the Ebola virus.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 16 Sep. 2026
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“Traveled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/traveled. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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