as in to cross
to make one's way through, across, or over
the spider traversed the wall from end to end
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Recent Examples of traverse
Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 27 May 2025
The beginning of June may not inspire much action, as your Cancer horoscope for June 2025 finds Gemini season still traversing your twelfth house of the subconscious, spirit realm, and dreamscape.
—Liz Simmons, StyleCaster, 27 May 2025
IEEE Spectrum, 27 Nov. 2024
For food and wine lovers To book: Tauck, Uniworld, Riverside
Just about every European river cruise traverses at least one famous wine-making region.
—Jeri Clausing, AFAR Media, 26 Feb. 2025
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Verb
Jefferson’s Bourbon is a Kentucky whiskey brand known for trying some unconventional experiments, like sending barrels out to traverse the globe on a container ship or to age in tropical climates in different countries to see what the effects of accelerated maturation might be.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 27 May 2025
The beginning of June may not inspire much action, as your Cancer horoscope for June 2025 finds Gemini season still traversing your twelfth house of the subconscious, spirit realm, and dreamscape.
—Liz Simmons, StyleCaster, 27 May 2025
Noun
Long traverses required multiple turns of the shaft, resulting in the odd-looking motions.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 Nov. 2024
For food and wine lovers To book: Tauck, Uniworld, Riverside
Just about every European river cruise traverses at least one famous wine-making region.
—Jeri Clausing, AFAR Media, 26 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for traverse
Verb
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The war has driven about 13 million people from their homes, including over 4 million who crossed into neighboring countries.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
4 June 2025
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Her career crossed a certain threshold of seriousness.—
Charlie Tyson,
New Yorker,
4 June 2025
Noun
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But tourism groups, hotel companies and airlines are warning about potential declines in international travel in the future.—
Rebecca Tauber,
New York Times,
6 June 2025
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President Donald Trump has issued a proclamation banning visitors to the U.S. from 12 foreign nations and restricting the travel rights of seven more.—
Meredith Kile,
People.com,
5 June 2025
Verb
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Talk to me about navigating that, the sort of settling into a groove there.—
Mark Olsen,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
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The teen has an intellectual disability that affects his ability to read and had trouble navigating the phone system to call his mom, McCarthy said.—
Rachel Baye,
NPR,
5 June 2025
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Cannes Film Festival president Iris Knobloch, the former boss of Warner Bros. France and Germany, who is the first female to have been appointed to that role, is expected to make the trek to the Sicilian sea resort to attend a panel on female empowerment in the film industry.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
5 June 2025
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It will also be served in Roslyn Heights, for those making the trek Out East on a Thursday.—
Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
Verb
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But overshadowing much of his testimony will be the Pentagon's decision to send some 4,800 troops, including 700 Marines, to Los Angeles following several days of clashes between protesters and law enforcement there.—
Anne Flaherty,
ABC News,
10 June 2025
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When Austin and Phoenix cleared the way for semiconductor expansion, billions in private investment followed.—
Ethan Karp,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
Noun
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And there are a lot of such swings in this game: Doom has a wide array of gameplay moments, including quieter sessions of traversal and menu navigation between bouts of frenetic combat.—
Matthew Buzzi,
PC Magazine,
12 May 2025
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Trying to improve the frame rate by flipping on any kind of frame generation resulted in awful visual artifacts, especially during fast traversal or combat.—
Jason Evangelho,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
Verb
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When New York Mets manager Carlos Mendoza intentionally walked a pinch-hitting Freddie Freeman in front of him in a tie game in the eighth inning, there wasn’t much consternation.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
6 June 2025
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Raised in Waukegan, Burke Morrell remembers walking from Cooke Magnet Elementary School to the Waukegan Public Library on field trips.—
Steve Sadin,
Chicago Tribune,
5 June 2025
Noun
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His first-person stories include supersonic flights in eight separate aircraft pulling up to 9 Gs and flying to 84,000 ft; driving a Bugatti at 253 mph and Indy cars at 200 mph; expeditions to the North and South Poles; summiting the Matterhorn and 23,000-ft.—
Jim Clash,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
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The hotel and the expedition cruise ships are being organized by Silversea Cruises, an ultra-luxury and expedition cruising company Royal Caribbean acquired in 2018.—
Vinod Sreeharsha,
Miami Herald,
12 June 2025
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“Traverse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/traverse. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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