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In 1967, an unlikely American duo of Charlie Cushman, a hitchhiker, and Herbert “Skip” Cole, a postgraduate student, were sent around the country by the antiquities department, to gather up some of the heritage.

From BBC • Sep. 21, 2024

Worst of all, the spotted lanternfly is a skilled hitchhiker, able to cling to surfaces that travel at high speed, such as cars and trains.

From National Geographic • Aug. 31, 2023

“A hitchhiker once came in and said he found us from a Bart’s bookmark someone gave him in the Midwest,” Jack Randolph, a longtime worker at the bookshop, told The Times in 2004.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2023

Only one fish made it past the electrodes during the test, apparently as a hitchhiker in the space between barges as they pushed up the canal.

From Salon • Jun. 13, 2023

Jim Gallien had driven four miles out of Fairbanks when he spot-ted the hitchhiker standing in the snow beside the road, thumb raised high, shivering in the gray Alaska dawn.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer