as in to cross
to make one's way through, across, or over
the spider traversed the wall from end to end
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Recent Examples of traverse
Christina House, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2025
This traverse, thick with maples and birches, is famous for its numerous moose sightings.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 10 Apr. 2025
Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 28 July 2025
From traversing wellness rituals across Europe to finding quiet moments of restoration between flights, Mieloch’s approach to travel is both intuitive and informed—rooted in decades of experience, and guided by a belief that the best routines (and trips) should feel effortless.
—Caroline Tell, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
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Verb
The SailGP 2025 season has competitors traverse conditions across five different continents over a year-long season, starting and ending in the United Arab Emirates.
—Christina House, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2025
This traverse, thick with maples and birches, is famous for its numerous moose sightings.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
Fans of carriages, trains, and ships that traverse the Atlantic, unite!
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 28 July 2025
From traversing wellness rituals across Europe to finding quiet moments of restoration between flights, Mieloch’s approach to travel is both intuitive and informed—rooted in decades of experience, and guided by a belief that the best routines (and trips) should feel effortless.
—Caroline Tell, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
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Today, the numbers are far worse, with the planetary boundary being crossed on the majority of land surfaces—but most prominently in Europe, Asia and North America, where land conversion for agriculture has taken its toll.—
Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Aug. 2025
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Wolves came to Isle Royale about six decades ago by crossing a frozen Lake Superior in winter.—
Keith Matheny,
Freep.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Don’t: Pack a travel steamer Instead: Bring a wrinkle-release spray Most travel steamers in the U.S. won’t work in Europe because of the different voltage standards.—
Jackie Cucco,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Aug. 2025
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Overall, the city paid more than $70,000 for his travel on these trips.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
16 Aug. 2025
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Retirement account laws can be notoriously difficult to navigate at the best of times, but for the millions of former U.S. persons living abroad, understanding the tax implications of U.S. retirement accounts is critical.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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Long trusted by parents to safeguard children and trained to navigate sensitive topics, pediatricians are quietly initiating some of the hardest conversations of their careers: If you’re detained, who will care for your child?—
Dalia Faheid,
CNN Money,
16 Aug. 2025
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While some campers from Virginia and Wisconsin and their families made the trek to Texas, others did or could not.—
Edward Lee,
Baltimore Sun,
1 Aug. 2025
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Kevin Macdonald, Liz Garbus, Roger Ross Williams, Brett Morgen, Lucy Walker, Raoul Peck, and Morgan Neville are among the genre’s top directors who have made the trek to Columbia to screen their films at True/False.—
Addie Morfoot,
Variety,
1 Aug. 2025
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Using data from three ongoing research programs, researchers followed over 200,000 health professionals for up to 36 years, regularly collecting detailed information about their diets and lifestyles.—
Sarah Garone,
Health,
8 Aug. 2025
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Career growth inside companies still follows a narrow script—progress often defined by vertical movement alone.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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An unauthenticated path traversal vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server, which is present in the SMA 100.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
16 July 2025
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Performance Trade-Offs: Real-time applications face inherent constraints due to the computational overhead of symbolic reasoning, knowledge graph traversal and the general reduction in inference speeds compared to pure neural approaches.—
Anuradha Weeraman,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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In a sweet video promo posted on both Instagram accounts, Danny is seen walking with Elena and personally inviting her to go on tour with him during the months of September and October.—
Jessica Roiz,
Billboard,
16 Aug. 2025
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Anybody walking the convention floor will immediately be dispelled of the notion that events like GalaxyCon are only for teenaged boys and middle-aged men nostalgic for their own youth.—
Sal Pizarro,
Mercury News,
16 Aug. 2025
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Air Cruises have taken off in the past few years, with several firms now offering incredible private jet expeditions that enable high-fliers to live out Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days at a far greater pace.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
12 Aug. 2025
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The 94-day expedition starts at $104,999 per person based on double occupancy.—
Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
11 Aug. 2025
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“Traverse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/traverse. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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