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Recent Examples of hitchhike
Houseplant pests typically hitchhike a ride into your home.
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 13 Apr. 2025
The complaint alleges that staff regularly sent students unattended to hitchhike for errands.
—Glynis Kazanjian, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2025
The first incident describes an alleged rape in 1971 when the plaintiff, then a 14-year-old student, was sent on a hitchhiking errand by a school dormitory counselor to purchase groceries from a nearby Kosher grocery store, Shapiro’s.
—Glynis Kazanjian, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2025
Rahill hitchhiked across the country to upstate New York for his sister’s graduation.
—Uma Raja, Sun Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2025
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 13 Apr. 2025
The complaint alleges that staff regularly sent students unattended to hitchhike for errands.
—Glynis Kazanjian, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2025
The first incident describes an alleged rape in 1971 when the plaintiff, then a 14-year-old student, was sent on a hitchhiking errand by a school dormitory counselor to purchase groceries from a nearby Kosher grocery store, Shapiro’s.
—Glynis Kazanjian, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2025
Rahill hitchhiked across the country to upstate New York for his sister’s graduation.
—Uma Raja, Sun Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hitchhike
Verb
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The impressive team effort enables nematodes to hitch rides on passing insects to more favorable habitats and bridge otherwise untraversable gaps, Ding and her co-authors suggest.—
Lauren Leffer,
Popular Science,
5 June 2025
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At the time, Cruise’s love story with Katie Holmes felt inextricably linked to the third Mission: Impossible film, which saw Ethan Hunt getting hitched to Julia, played by Michelle Monaghan.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
23 May 2025
Verb
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The graduate is not only bummed about the sister’s absence.—
Brian Anthony Hernandez,
People.com,
25 May 2025
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Everyone — from those actually paying to the ones still bumming a log-in — wants to know how Netflix and other streaming services’ crackdowns on password sharing affect them.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
20 May 2025
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“Hitchhike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hitchhike. Accessed 15 Jun. 2025.
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