Thesaurus results for TRAVERSES

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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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Things to do 🧑‍🍳Famous chef Roy Choi traverses Los Angeles for lobster noodles and spicy tofu. — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2026 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

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Once the inventory crosses that hard threshold, the law explicitly prohibits these routine limited drawdowns.

— Siddharth Misra, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
Pluto fails at this because its orbit actually crosses Neptune's, and it's accompanied by other Kuiper belt objects in neighboring orbits.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of crosses

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In the novel, Paradella cannot seem to finish the translation, due to distractions, heartbreaks, travels, and misplacements of the manuscript.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2026
Paine, who works in technology by day — and intends to keep that career — has dabbled in winemaking for many years during his world military travels.

— Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 24 Aug. 2026

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The 12-episode series – produced by Studio Dragon and released as a TVING original on CJ ENM‘s Korean streaming platform – follows Kang Seong-jae, played by Park Ji-hoon, a young man who joins the military to escape a difficult reality.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 Aug. 2026
White Pony ranks as the group’s second-longest-running effort with 40 frames somewhere on the tally, while Koi No Yokan follows with 15.

— Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of follows

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Encore, encore Several artists return for another trip on their current treks after successful initial stops.

— Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026
Step right off the property onto miles of scenic hiking and mountain biking trails, or ride the complimentary gondola down to historic downtown for instant access to iconic box-canyon treks, cascading waterfalls and world-class fly fishing.

— Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of treks

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Samantha Parkington navigates grief and the lack of child labor laws.

— Tara Strauch, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026
The way the central couple navigates the twists, turns, roadblocks and unforced errors that entangle their budding relationship is the beating heart of these films.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of navigates

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Travel data shows the average group size for trips has decreased since COVID-19 began.

— Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
After sleeping on a bus bench and a few trips to the hospital, Lugo landed at Holliday's Helping Hands, or HHH, a network of interim housing facilities started by nurse practitioner Katina Holliday.

— Rina Nakano, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of trips

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Edgewater defensive tackle Wes Hendry walks off the field with cramps.

— Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2026
Every year, more than 27,000 members of the Television Academy — actors and editors, showrunners and composers, the people who actually make television — sit down with their ballots and decide who walks away with an Emmy.

— Clayton Davis, Variety, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of walks

Noun

British Arctic expeditions used the north coast of Svalbard as a base for research, a tradition of scientific observation that continues across Svalbard today.

— Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
Related Stories An oceanographer and experienced diver, Kurilov dreamed of joining international expeditions and exploring the world’s oceans, but opportunities to work abroad remained out of reach.

— Alex Ritman, Variety, 28 Aug. 2026

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