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
Jennifer Pierce, USA Today, 7 May 2025
Options include the Goat Trail traverse or Solo Creek to Chisana—both are around 25 miles and require expert backcountry skills.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 27 Apr. 2025
Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 26 Sep. 2025
Travelers can hike to the deep gorges of Gola di Gorropu or even traverse Sahara-like landscapes at the Dunes of Piscinas.
—Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 26 Sep. 2025
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Verb
Outside of the classroom, Joan is a skilled musician whose performances traverse genres and venues.
—Jennifer Pierce, USA Today, 7 May 2025
Options include the Goat Trail traverse or Solo Creek to Chisana—both are around 25 miles and require expert backcountry skills.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 27 Apr. 2025
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Riding from Charlotte and traversing through the mountainous terrain of the western part of North Carolina, the gravity of it all wasn’t lost on Grant Williams.
—Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 26 Sep. 2025
Travelers can hike to the deep gorges of Gola di Gorropu or even traverse Sahara-like landscapes at the Dunes of Piscinas.
—Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 26 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for traverse
Verb
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When his high fly ball crossed into Toronto’s home bullpen, Guerrero earned his first playoff homer.—
Mitch Bannon,
New York Times,
5 Oct. 2025
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The road work downtown also impacts commuters crossing the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge from Jeffersonville, Indiana.—
Leo Bertucci,
Louisville Courier Journal,
5 Oct. 2025
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Nathan Diller is a consumer travel reporter for USA TODAY based in Nashville.—
Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
7 Oct. 2025
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Sophie Friedman is a freelance travel and food writer based in New York and Marseille, France.—
Kristin Braswell,
AFAR Media,
7 Oct. 2025
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For Farley, who marks his fifth anniversary as CEO on Wednesday, there have been industry-wide problems to deal with, as well as Ford-specific issues that the company is still in the process of navigating.—
Michael Wayland,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
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Moody has been dedicating her practice to helping clients navigate the AI space and counsels nearly a dozen generative voice and audio AI companies.—
Claudia Rosenbaum,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Oct. 2025
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Endurance athlete Colin O'Brady, celebrated internationally in 2018 as the first person to traverse Antarctica solo and unassisted, is returning to the unforgiving continent for an even more arduous trek.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
2 Oct. 2025
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That offer only came to fruition when Hollub took a whirlwind trek to Omaha to see Warren Buffett and his Berkshire team.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 2025
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How does a century-old industrial company such as Firmenich (renamed DSM-Firmenich following its 2023 merger with Dutch chemical firm DSM) manage to remain globally competitive today, given that a large share of its cost base is in the most expensive country in the world?—
Peter Vanham,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 2025
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Little Rock Christian Academy followed close behind, with 1,638.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
2 Oct. 2025
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For the first few hours, the gatekeeping of these features leaves Hornet feeling dramatically underpowered in both a fight and basic traversal.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
19 Sep. 2025
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Invest in natural language query tools with visual explanations (graph traversal, source citations).—
Daniel Fallmann,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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What started as a walking tour of the historic Chickasaw neighborhood in 2012, during his years as president of the local neighborhood association, has since expanded to cover the other nine neighborhoods, after Taylor was awarded a fellowship through the Filson Historical Society in 2023.—
Keely Doll,
Louisville Courier Journal,
3 Oct. 2025
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One partner is ready to walk down the aisle, while the other is dragging their feet.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
2 Oct. 2025
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Swift’s 149-show, five-continent expedition encapsulated a tsunami of emotions not just among her fans, but her own journey through a very public breakup, a fling and, as indicated by her engagement to Kelce, knee-buckling love.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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That’s what brought Wiesmair, Spilker, and 41 other lepidopterists to the Italian Alps for the Project Psyche expedition this past July.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Traverse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/traverse. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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