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Recent Examples of trundle
On the train, a dark-haired young man read Marcus Aurelius while the coffee cart trundled past, pushed by a friendly woman offering drinks and snacks.
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Literary Hub, 16 Dec. 2025
Come 2027, the new carriages will soon trundle through Rome, Venice, Naples and along the shores of Sicily.
—Connor Sturges, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Oct. 2025
Worthington spent his first years in France on a meagre wage, grateful that the club paid his expenses for trundling up and down the autoroute in his Fiat Punto: a 14-hour round trip to Lyon, a 16-hour there and back to Marseille.
—Oliver Kay, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Most of the deep space radio signals in the DSN logs were sent to spacecraft orbiting Mars (like the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mars Odyssey) or rovers trundling around on the surface.
—Kiona N. Smith, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2025
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Literary Hub, 16 Dec. 2025
Come 2027, the new carriages will soon trundle through Rome, Venice, Naples and along the shores of Sicily.
—Connor Sturges, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Oct. 2025
Worthington spent his first years in France on a meagre wage, grateful that the club paid his expenses for trundling up and down the autoroute in his Fiat Punto: a 14-hour round trip to Lyon, a 16-hour there and back to Marseille.
—Oliver Kay, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Most of the deep space radio signals in the DSN logs were sent to spacecraft orbiting Mars (like the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mars Odyssey) or rovers trundling around on the surface.
—Kiona N. Smith, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trundle
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People bus in from surrounding neighborhoods and towns.—
Alexis Marshall,
NPR,
3 Apr. 2026
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Under Cooper’s proposal, visitors would be bused from a parking lot in Bannockburn to the Highland Park Park District’s Heller Nature Center, which is immediately to the north of the former Jordan property.—
Bob Goldsborough,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Mar. 2026
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The offices of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance had people of all ages on Wednesday night waiting for the end of the nightly Ramadan fast, from children sitting at tables doing math homework to cab drivers just getting off their shifts.—
Katherine Koretski,
CNN Money,
20 Mar. 2026
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The neighborhood/area The hotel’s stretch of A1A isn’t the most interesting so most guests opt to either keep to the property’s upscale amenities, cab it to South Beach (which is 15 minutes away), or go north to the chichi enclaves of Surfside and Bal Harbour for shopping and dining.—
Sara Liss,
Condé Nast Traveler,
12 Jan. 2026
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The Route 66 Car Museum takes you on a century-long trip through automotive history; its collection of more than 75 classic cars includes the kind of models that motored down the Mother Road in its heyday.—
Ginger Crichton,
Midwest Living,
12 Apr. 2026
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With water temperatures in the low 60’s and only four hours left to fish, Bennett and Shad motored over to a new spot on the west end of the lake where the water was shallower.—
Kubie Brown,
Outdoor Life,
19 Mar. 2026
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The league’s survival won’t be on the line, but the club’s relevance in the Denver market — arguably the country’s most successful right now — very much could ride on a positive result on Saturday.—
Braidon Nourse,
Denver Post,
18 Apr. 2026
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Suarez was off to the side, in a green room, riding the high after hearing she was drafted by the Seattle Storm and answering questions.—
Nathan Canilao,
Mercury News,
18 Apr. 2026
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The concierge can arrange bike rides through Lovćen National Park, white-water rafting in the Tara River Gorge, or even sailing excursions with Montenegrin Olympic sailor Milivoj Dukić.—
Travel + Leisure Editors,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Apr. 2026
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The site also features three miles of nature trails and a Treetop Discovery Tower with views of Lake Huron, the Straits of Mackinac and Mackinac Island, along with interpretive programming that explains how sawn lumber was rafted across behind sailing ships.—
Andy Morrison,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2026
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Be sure to use a handy smartphone astronomy app to help point the way if you're not used to navigating the night sky.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
20 Apr. 2026
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Moreover, these hyperactive behaviors became even more intense as the study progressed, showing a lasting shift in how the fish navigated their environment.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Apr. 2026
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Sean Gallup / Getty Images Vice President JD Vance jetted to Hungary in an eleventh-hour attempt to keep his poll-flagging ally in power.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
19 Apr. 2026
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For those of us who cannot jet off to an island, filling the time in a way that keeps the kids happy often seems to wear down parents.—
Moira McCarthy,
Boston Herald,
19 Apr. 2026
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“Trundle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trundle. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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