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as in to traverse
to make one's way through, across, or over Jack Kerouac's celebrated novel about penniless free spirits peregrinating the United States

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  • Others had traversed multiple countries by bus, and yet others had crowded for months into shelters and local hotels hoping for confirmation of an asylum appointment via the mobile app, CBP One, that the Biden administration had utilized since early 2023 to ease the process of applying for asylum.
    Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Every day, tens of thousands of flights traverse U.S. airspace with over two million passenger lives depending on the FAA's ability to ensure that every airplane is airworthy and lands safely at its destination.
    John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
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  • The confident and haughty Onegin kills his friend in the duel and flees to travel the world to ruminate.
    Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Many European athletes decided to stay home because of the Russo-Japanese War, as well as the effort and expense required to travel to the United States.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2025
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  • Longtime Hollywood fixtures Drew Barrymore and Orlando Bloom had never crossed paths — until now.
    Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Eight years later, polls show the president has more support in the country for aggressive limits on immigration, in part because of a surge in migrants crossing the southern border during much of Mr. Biden’s time in office.
    Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
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  • Pete Hegseth, the combat veteran and former Fox News personality tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as his next secretary of defense, trekked up to Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Jan. 14, for his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The bandmates trekked to Grassmarket, at the center of the neighborhood, and kicked their feet up outside the White Hart Inn with drinks.
    Brendan Le, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
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  • While the show follows the Howey novels fairly closely, things develop differently; genders are flipped, and deaths happen in different ways.
    Barry Levitt, TIME, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Like so many Angelenos, Cheyenne Shannon’s routine came to a halt in the hours after the devastating Palisades Fire broke out on the morning of Jan. 7, followed by the Eaton Fire in Altadena.
    Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2025
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  • Just as the ancient Egyptians moved southward to expand their empires and Polynesians voyaged into uncharted waters, today’s leaders must navigate uncertainty and complexity.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The Panama Canal has a long history of sea creatures voyaging through as stowaways on ships’ hulls and in their ballast tanks: oysters from the Indo-Pacific, jellyfish from the Black Sea, worms from mud flats in the Netherlands.
    Charlie Cordero, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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  • This popular tutorial will walk you through the steps of deep-cleaning your hair brushes and combs.
    Katelyn Squiers, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Jan. 2025
  • More companies will be walking down the aisle together.
    Louis Biscotti, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
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  • Through a series of 31 interactive exhibits, visitors journey down the Fraser River to the headwaters of the Upper Colorado River Basin, where water is diverted across the Continental Divide into metro Denver.
    Gigi Ragland, The Denver Post, 14 Jan. 2025
  • After transiting the canal, the ship journeys north along the East Coast to Newfoundland, Canada, and finally across the Atlantic to Europe.
    Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 14 Jan. 2025
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“Peregrinate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peregrinate. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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