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a motor vehicle that is specially equipped for living while traveling
bought a caravan and drove cross-country to California
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as in to tent
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Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Nov. 2024
Military deployed at the U.S.-Mexico border In late 2018 — just before the midterm election — Trump deployed more than 5,000 active-duty members of the military to the southern border in response to a caravan of Central American migrants making its way toward the U.S.-Mexico border.
—Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 21 Dec. 2024
Freep.com, 9 June 2023
State officials have organized occasional convoys to let residents caravan through the northern closures to make supply runs.
—Victoria Kim Ian C. Bates, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2023
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Noun
It’s said that Montezuma, the last emperor of the Mexica, had caravans of cuetlaxochitl brought into his palaces in Tenochtitlan to decorate each winter.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Nov. 2024
Military deployed at the U.S.-Mexico border In late 2018 — just before the midterm election — Trump deployed more than 5,000 active-duty members of the military to the southern border in response to a caravan of Central American migrants making its way toward the U.S.-Mexico border.
—Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 21 Dec. 2024
Verb
Together, these mostly mother-child pairs caravaned by bus and by train across a homeland pocked by shelling and missile attacks.
—Freep.com, 9 June 2023
State officials have organized occasional convoys to let residents caravan through the northern closures to make supply runs.
—Victoria Kim Ian C. Bates, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2023
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More than 180 oil-carrying vessels that are suspected to be part of a shadow fleet utilized by the Kremlin to evade oil sanctions as well as traders, oil field service firms and Russian energy officials are also targeted by the new sanctions.AAMER MADHANI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, arkansasonline.com, 11 Jan. 2025
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Drone strikes on Sevastopol have forced Russia to move much of its naval fleet from Crimea to the Krasnodar region thus losing control of much of the Black Sea. Strikes on the port at Novorossiysk not only highlight Russian air defense vulnerabilities but suggest nowhere is safe.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 11 Jan. 2025
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Take a look at the trailer for the first episode of Me & My Homegirl podcast below and watch the first episode premiering on Thursday (Jan. 16) at 8 P.M. ET and Ep. 2 on Jan. 30.Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 13 Jan. 2025
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Sign up for Entertainment Weekly's free newsletter to get the latest trailers, celebrity interviews, film reviews, and more.Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 13 Jan. 2025
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Holiday Gift Market: Hosted in the heated and tented Bang Bang Bay Chalet.Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 18 Dec. 2024
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Even the West Indian drywood termite, the one that prompts tenting, is technically invasive.Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
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In early 2019, a suicide bomber in a car rammed a convoy of Indian paramilitary police in the northern district of Pulwama, killing more than 40 people.Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2025
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In a highly biracial move, Latto rolled up to the Bronx with a convoy of Sedans.Rob Marriott, VIBE.com, 30 Dec. 2024
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Imagine taking two years off to focus on your young family or backpack the world before diving into your next big idea.Lien De Pau, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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The excellent Julia Garner reunites with Kitty Green (after 2019’s The Assistant) and co-stars alongside Jessica Henwick as two American women backpacking through Australia.Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Caravan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caravan. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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