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
Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 27 May 2025
The beginning of June may not inspire much action, as your Cancer horoscope for June 2025 finds Gemini season still traversing your twelfth house of the subconscious, spirit realm, and dreamscape.
—Liz Simmons, StyleCaster, 27 May 2025
Jeri Clausing, AFAR Media, 26 Feb. 2025
The Ski Utah Interconnect Tour plays on Utah’s ski notoriety by leading riders on an epic one-day traverse of the Wasatch Mountains stopping at six legendary Utah resorts.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 6 Dec. 2024
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Verb
Jefferson’s Bourbon is a Kentucky whiskey brand known for trying some unconventional experiments, like sending barrels out to traverse the globe on a container ship or to age in tropical climates in different countries to see what the effects of accelerated maturation might be.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 27 May 2025
The beginning of June may not inspire much action, as your Cancer horoscope for June 2025 finds Gemini season still traversing your twelfth house of the subconscious, spirit realm, and dreamscape.
—Liz Simmons, StyleCaster, 27 May 2025
Noun
For food and wine lovers To book: Tauck, Uniworld, Riverside
Just about every European river cruise traverses at least one famous wine-making region.
—Jeri Clausing, AFAR Media, 26 Feb. 2025
The Ski Utah Interconnect Tour plays on Utah’s ski notoriety by leading riders on an epic one-day traverse of the Wasatch Mountains stopping at six legendary Utah resorts.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 6 Dec. 2024
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Verb
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Interest on the debt just crossed $1 trillion annually — more than the U.S. spends on defense, Medicaid, disability insurance, and food stamps combined.—
Don Muir,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
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Her career crossed a certain threshold of seriousness.—
Charlie Tyson,
New Yorker,
4 June 2025
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But tourism groups, hotel companies and airlines are warning about potential declines in international travel in the future.—
Rebecca Tauber,
New York Times,
6 June 2025
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India is the third-largest air travel market in the world, Air India CEO Campbell Wilson told CNBC's Monica Pitrelli at the World Air Transport Summit over the weekend.—
Ganesh Rao,
CNBC,
5 June 2025
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Haus of Hormones is a space for transgender and nonbinary people to gather and gain access to crucial resources including legal name and gender marker change paperwork support, navigating gender affirming care, HIV/STI testing and community discussions.—
Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado,
Sacbee.com,
5 June 2025
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Each of these provisions could be tweaked or reversed to allow for passage in the Senate, where Thune has his own three-seat majority to navigate.—
David Sivak,
The Washington Examiner,
5 June 2025
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Ahead of his presidential pardon, NBA YoungBoy announced his first headlining trek.—
DeMicia Inman,
VIBE.com,
29 May 2025
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The Chicago band will begin the trek on June 12, in Cleveland, before stopping in Boston, Salt Lake City, and elsewhere.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
28 May 2025
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The attacks into Sumy follow a Kremlin directive on May 21 that the military create buffer zones inside northern Ukraine – in Sumy and Kharkiv regions.—
Tim Lister,
CNN Money,
29 May 2025
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What is this nagging discomfort that's seeming to follow me around?—
Dr. Joel M. Rothaizer,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
Noun
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And there are a lot of such swings in this game: Doom has a wide array of gameplay moments, including quieter sessions of traversal and menu navigation between bouts of frenetic combat.—
Matthew Buzzi,
PC Magazine,
12 May 2025
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Trying to improve the frame rate by flipping on any kind of frame generation resulted in awful visual artifacts, especially during fast traversal or combat.—
Jason Evangelho,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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When New York Mets manager Carlos Mendoza intentionally walked a pinch-hitting Freddie Freeman in front of him in a tie game in the eighth inning, there wasn’t much consternation.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
6 June 2025
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As the show airs, fans get to cast votes for their favorite couples, and one winning pair walks away with $100,000.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
5 June 2025
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The end of the four-day expedition was bittersweet.—
Kathleen Wong,
USA Today,
29 May 2025
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The expedition includes tastings of 12 wines at their respective locations, a traditional morning snack, and a three-course lunch in one of the top restaurants in the village of Kurtatsch.—
Irene S. Levine,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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“Traverse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/traverse. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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