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verb

present tense third-person singular of traverse
as in crosses
to make one's way through, across, or over the spider traversed the wall from end to end

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noun

plural of traverse
as in travels

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Recent Examples of traverses
Verb
The canal traverses the Isthmus of Suez, which is the sole land bridge between Africa and Asia. — Scott Spires, Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 Aug. 2026 How to Get There The city of Glenwood Springs is built around Interstate 70, a major highway that traverses the state. — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 20 Aug. 2026 Traveling between Chicago and Seattle, the train traverses Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Washington. — Everett Potter, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 While the show fluidly traverses the years before and after it, dropping in on Hal and John at key moments in their lives, the investigation that puts the two men in buddy-cop mode unfolds in 2016, two decades after the William Tell scene. — Judy Berman, Time, 14 Aug. 2026 In your periphery to the left, a spacewalker traverses the exterior of the station. — Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 26 July 2026 The Golden State might be a West Coast utopia, but then Californians live on a fault line that traverses most of it. — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2026 Completed in 2010, the bridge traverses extensive agricultural land and urban areas, allowing trains to bypass road crossings while maintaining high operating speeds. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 14 July 2026 Laura and Mary, in fact, sing their song as the family traverses a cliffside overlooking the very river that moments later they’re forced to cross. — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 9 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for traverses
  1. crosses
  2. travels
  3. follows
  4. treks
  5. navigates
  6. trips
  7. walks
  8. expeditions
Verb
  • Insurers price policiees and settle claims based on where rain fell, and parametric products that pay out automatically when rainfall crosses the threshold only work if the rainfall is measured.
    — Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • But the idea of gamifying a disaster like a wildfire for financial gain crosses a clear ethical boundary, experts say.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of crosses
Noun
  • The latter recounts his travels to the island of Utopia and outlines its customs, which contrast sharply with common practice in England.
    — Carline Tromp, The Dial, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Memoir of a Hindu soldier Sitaram Pande, a soldier in the Bengal Army of the British East India Company, wrote a memoir about his travels and time in military service.
    — Aishwarya Lakshmi, The Conversation, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of travels
Verb
  • Directed by Kim Soo-hoon, the musical fantasy adventure follows Princess Romi, Heartsping, and their crew venturing into the deep sea to rescue Queen Velita.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 Aug. 2026
  • The move follows efforts by Pinterest and LinkedIn to respond to users’ frustrations with AI slop in their feeds.
    — Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of follows
Noun
  • This summer, the actress and entrepreneur dropped her second season of Solo Traveling with Tracee Ellis Ross, in which fans followed her on treks through Australia, Switzerland and Thailand.
    — Jackie Fields, PEOPLE, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Popular treks include summit Mount Kinabalu, a 4,095-meter (13,435-foot) mountain in Borneo, or week-long treks in the jungles of Gunung Tahan, home to the highest point in pensinular Malaysia, the 2,187-meter (7,175-foot) Mount Tahan.
    — Jack Guy, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of treks
Verb
  • Ronaldo recently stated his Al-Nassr contract will likely be his last, while Messi navigates personal and professional changes after his father's death.
    — Clemente Lisi, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The Ateela 2 Oil Tanker boat navigates the sea on April 28, 2026 on Qeshm Island, Iran in the Strait of Hormuz.
    — Justina Lee, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of navigates
Noun
  • Conversations ranged from futuristic descriptions of everyday flying car trips to the ongoing struggles over funding for electric transit buses.
    — Madison Smalstig, Sacbee.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • UMass needs some kind of momentum after an 0-12 season last year, and Sacramento State will make a whole lot of trips from California to the Midwest after its surprising FBS jump.
    — Chris Vannini, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of trips
Verb
  • The person, identified by authorities as Berezovska, then walks away, reaching into her pocket for a phone.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026
  • In the 2013 movie, Joaquin Phoenix’s character, Theodore, walks around the city talking to Samantha, his AI companion, through a tiny earpiece.
    — Joanna Stern, NBC news, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of walks
Noun
  • Mars expeditions will last even longer — months, years and possibly entire lifetimes if SpaceX CEO Elon Musk achieves his goal of building a city on the red planet.
    — Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2026
  • In the decades since, millions of dollars have been poured into expeditions that have taken researchers from remote islands to the depths of the Pacific Ocean, including in recent years.
    — Christopher Cann, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of expeditions

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