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
Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 10 Apr. 2025
One of the major additions for the Urban Circuit was the introduction of multi-level courses, where the ability to traverse stairways was a prerequisite for accessing large portions of the course.
—Edward Terry, IEEE Spectrum, 16 Nov. 2020
Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2025
Sally’s fans rarely traverse down the street to frequent Pepe’s or wander over to Modern and vice versa.
—Bill Field, Hartford Courant, 19 June 2025
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Verb
This traverse, thick with maples and birches, is famous for its numerous moose sightings.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 10 Apr. 2025
One of the major additions for the Urban Circuit was the introduction of multi-level courses, where the ability to traverse stairways was a prerequisite for accessing large portions of the course.
—Edward Terry, IEEE Spectrum, 16 Nov. 2020
Noun
The research revealed that the tooth traversed a complicated path to arrive at its burial place — a pit about a yard across — where it was intentionally placed, potentially indicating its meaning.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2025
Sally’s fans rarely traverse down the street to frequent Pepe’s or wander over to Modern and vice versa.
—Bill Field, Hartford Courant, 19 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for traverse
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Hakimi exchanged passes with Dembélé, then crossed for Ruiz, who maintained control despite Federico Valverde’s challenge and scored from 8 yards for his third goal of the tournament.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 July 2025
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Controlling a fire means ensuring that the fire can't spread or cross the containment line.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
10 July 2025
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The federal authorities later used Airbnb and travel records to identify Moreno as a suspect.—
Quinlan Bentley,
The Enquirer,
11 July 2025
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Astonishing accomplishments in everything from space travel to neuroscience to autonomous driving to AI, all muted by his polarizing public persona.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
11 July 2025
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But our humanity, and the task of teaching children to navigate an ever more complex world, depends on keeping our friendships analog.—
Russell Shaw,
The Atlantic,
11 July 2025
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At the same time, the students have to keep track of turbulence and other factors that might disrupt planes trying to navigate the airspace.—
Alexandra Skores,
CNN Money,
11 July 2025
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Almost two decades of dining and partying at this quaint beach resort hotel have evolved into a place where New Yorkers trek to find an escape from cityscape canyons.—
Cassell Ferere,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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The zoo field team discovered the marmot upon their return to the zoo, and the organization's animal care, veterinary medicine, and field conservation teams quickly conducted a health check to ensure the wild animal had not been injured during his accidental three-hour trek.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
1 July 2025
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Also be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel and follow me here on this blog.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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Tires is the second production from Gillis and McKeever’s production company, Dad Sick Productions, following Gillis’ stand-up special Beautiful Dogs.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
1 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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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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The union hopes to walk away from the Indy meeting with more confidence that a deal will be done before the deadline.—
Eric Jackson,
Sportico.com,
11 July 2025
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Once in place, the walking robots moved Huayanli 33 feet a day, or 0.0003 miles per hour, to the west then to the north, like a knight’s move in chess.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
11 July 2025
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Popular theory suggests laal maas originated on Rajasthani hunting expeditions between the eighth and 10th centuries.—
Bradley Hohulin,
IndyStar,
2 July 2025
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Philipps is one of the world’s most visible advocates for tiger sharks, having filmed extensively in the water with them on scientific expeditions around the globe.—
Joe Sills,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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“Traverse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/traverse. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.
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