Thesaurus results for TRAVERSED

traversed

verb

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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 The wolf — known as BEY03F — essentially traversed the Sierra Nevada in the span of three to four days, a feat Hunnicutt believes was made possible by a low snowpack this season. —

Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026 Ships flying the flags of Pakistan, India, Thailand, Russia, Turkey, China, Iraq, and now Malaysia have safely traversed the strait at some point since the war began. —

Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 7 Apr. 2026 Only a few ships with ties to China, Pakistan and India have traversed through after Iranian officials authorized vessels from non-hostile nations. —

Leila Gharagozlou, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2026 Her subsequent journey to the Pacific and back again traversed a vast and diverse landscape filled with Indigenous polities. —

Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026 The astronauts -- Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen -- will spend more than a week flying around the moon, exploring depths of the cosmos that astronauts have not traversed in around five decades. —

Mason Leib, ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026 Some 80 oil and gas tankers a day typically traversed the Strait of Hormuz before the war, The New York Times noted. —

Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 13 Mar. 2026 The landscape—rolling hills, thick forests, and lush river valleys—lends itself to hiking and biking, and the park is also traversed by the Green and Nolin rivers, which offer plenty of opportunities for boating and fishing. —

Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 12 Mar. 2026 The Boise State men’s basketball team has traversed the 2025-26 season without a true team leader, instead relying on individual nights of brilliance from one of several players to win games. —

Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 1 Mar. 2026

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That’s probably why class-crossed lovers make such fertile ground for fiction—look at Heathcliff and Cathy, or poor Scudder and Maurice.

— Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
The ships crossed the strait from east to west to the Gulf before making their way back to the Arabian sea, according to the report.

— Angela Cullen, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2026