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Grace Rohloff was an athlete who had traversed precariously narrow trails leading up to Angels Landing in Zion National Park, hiked the Grand Canyon and trekked across mountains in Sedona.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2024

A Tibetan professor of education, he had traversed western China for decades, encouraging Tibetan administrators, teachers and families there to keep schooling alive in their native language and culture.

From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2022

Minister Nikos Nouris said 94% of the 15,130 asylum-seekers who filed applications with the divided island’s internationally recognized government in the south through August this year had traversed the buffer zone.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 26, 2022

The starting point for the march, the main University of Virginia quadrangle, was a field Huffman and his former roommate, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, had traversed often as undergrads.

From The Guardian • Sep. 23, 2018

Inez showed Amari the boundaries of the little settlement—a river, a marsh, and the hills they had traversed earlier.

From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper