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
Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 10 Apr. 2025
One of the major additions for the Urban Circuit was the introduction of multi-level courses, where the ability to traverse stairways was a prerequisite for accessing large portions of the course.
—Edward Terry, IEEE Spectrum, 16 Nov. 2020
Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
By definition, anybody attempting to move through Venice will meet some, or several, bodies of water to be traversed.
—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
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Verb
This traverse, thick with maples and birches, is famous for its numerous moose sightings.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 10 Apr. 2025
One of the major additions for the Urban Circuit was the introduction of multi-level courses, where the ability to traverse stairways was a prerequisite for accessing large portions of the course.
—Edward Terry, IEEE Spectrum, 16 Nov. 2020
Noun
Wear long sleeves and pants with sturdy boots to traverse steep slopes along the creek.
—Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
By definition, anybody attempting to move through Venice will meet some, or several, bodies of water to be traversed.
—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for traverse
Verb
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The pedestrian was crossing the intersection southbound when he was struck.—
Drake Bentley,
jsonline.com,
10 July 2025
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Hakimi exchanged passes with Dembélé, then crossed for Ruiz, who maintained control despite Federico Valverde’s challenge and scored from 8 yards for his third goal of the tournament.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 July 2025
Noun
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Expect delays, especially during peak travel times.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
11 July 2025
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Astonishing accomplishments in everything from space travel to neuroscience to autonomous driving to AI, all muted by his polarizing public persona.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
11 July 2025
Verb
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At the same time, the students have to keep track of turbulence and other factors that might disrupt planes trying to navigate the airspace.—
Alexandra Skores,
CNN Money,
11 July 2025
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But our humanity, and the task of teaching children to navigate an ever more complex world, depends on keeping our friendships analog.—
Russell Shaw,
The Atlantic,
11 July 2025
Noun
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Interestingly, her debut full-length is the greatest gainer at the moment, even though her current trek focuses on the music presented on her third project, Hit Me Hard and Soft.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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She is next scheduled to perform in Las Vegas for two nights that conclude the trek, which initially kicked off in Los Angeles on Aug. 28.—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
14 July 2025
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Amtrak warned riders to expect delays on the Northeast Corridor line Tuesday morning, following torrential downpours and flooding in the New York region overnight.—
Evan Simko-Bednarski,
New York Daily News,
15 July 2025
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Microsoft followed a similar playbook with Inflection AI, bringing in CEO Mustafa Suleyman and most of his team while leaving the original company as a shell.—
Josipa Majic Predin,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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Performance Trade-Offs: Real-time applications face inherent constraints due to the computational overhead of symbolic reasoning, knowledge graph traversal and the general reduction in inference speeds compared to pure neural approaches.—
Anuradha Weeraman,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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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
Verb
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The union hopes to walk away from the Indy meeting with more confidence that a deal will be done before the deadline.—
Eric Jackson,
Sportico.com,
11 July 2025
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Unfortunately, many of those motivated buyers are walking away from the summer empty-handed because the supply of star players was extraordinarily scarce.—
Harman Dayal,
New York Times,
11 July 2025
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Popular theory suggests laal maas originated on Rajasthani hunting expeditions between the eighth and 10th centuries.—
Bradley Hohulin,
IndyStar,
2 July 2025
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Philipps is one of the world’s most visible advocates for tiger sharks, having filmed extensively in the water with them on scientific expeditions around the globe.—
Joe Sills,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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“Traverse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/traverse. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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