Thesaurus results for TRAVERSED

traversed

verb

Definition of traversed next

past tense of traverse

as in crossed

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 traversed Iran's near-closure of the Strait of Hormuz has thrown global oil trade into disarray, cutting off importers from around one-fifth of the global oil supply that traversed the waterway before the war. —

USA Today, 18 May 2026 Tehran denied that, but Danish shipping and logistics company Maersk subsequently confirmed that one of its ships had traversed the strait with US protection. —

Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 4 May 2026 The major difference, of course, is that Jovovich has since traversed into the world of action movies since her days as a model. —

Laura Lane, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026 Once traversed by Genghis Khan, this is a focal point of Scythian-Turkic culture, whose arid slopes somehow sustain nomadic life that demands constant attentiveness to the environment. —

Rob Crossan, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Apr. 2026 But hardly any ships have traversed the strait since the war began in late February. —

Justin Fishel, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026 The film mostly exists as an exercise in further tilling personal earth that Romvari previously traversed in her short films. —

Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2026 Igra added that a friend who traversed the route months later and wound up in the jail as well also remembered the soup and had been telling her children about it for years. —

Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 14 Apr. 2026 Only 10 ships have traversed the strait in the last 24 hours. —

Jim Edwards, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2026

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The creatives have their fingers crossed that Jim Queen will connect with audiences and help with funding for more adult animation films in the future.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2026
At 15, Benyamin, of Romeoville, crossed the graduation stage as the university’s youngest student ever to receive his master’s degree from the school in its nearly 100-year tenure.

— Allison Kiehl, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2026