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as in trailer
a motor vehicle that is specially equipped for living while traveling
bought a caravan and drove cross-country to California
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as in to tent
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Recent Examples of caravan
Mohammad Jahjouh, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Calling themselves the Shovel Brigade, protesters assembled a caravan of school buses and headed into the mountains to rebuild the road themselves.
—James Pogue, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Jan. 2024
Together, these mostly mother-child pairs caravaned by bus and by train across a homeland pocked by shelling and missile attacks.
—Freep.com, 9 June 2023
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Noun
Many people wiped away tears and softly sang the national anthem as the caravan wound through southern Israel — a stark contrast to the celebratory return of 24 living hostages in recent weeks under a tenuous cease-fire that has paused over 15 months of war.
—Mohammad Jahjouh, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Calling themselves the Shovel Brigade, protesters assembled a caravan of school buses and headed into the mountains to rebuild the road themselves.
—James Pogue, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Verb
Groups will caravan along the reservoir to observe the eagles.
—Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Jan. 2024
Together, these mostly mother-child pairs caravaned by bus and by train across a homeland pocked by shelling and missile attacks.
—Freep.com, 9 June 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for caravan
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This marked the 21st flight for the first-stage booster, the most in the booster fleet, having previously flown on human spaceflight missions Inspiration4 and Axiom Space’s Ax-1 among others.—
Richard Tribou,
Orlando Sentinel,
15 Feb. 2025
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The law set an initial target of electrifying of half of the state fleet by Jan. 1, 2026.—
John Moritz,
Hartford Courant,
14 Feb. 2025
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The people who spent years tracking down Osama Bin Laden after the 9/11 attacks share their stories in the new trailer for American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden, a three-part docuseries premiering March 10 on Netflix.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
18 Feb. 2025
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Brian Tyree Henry and Narcos alum Wagner Moura are forced to run for their lives after robbing the wrong country house in the latest trailer for Apple’s drug ring drama Dope Thief, which dropped on Tuesday.—
Etan Vlessing,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 Feb. 2025
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Holiday Gift Market: Hosted in the heated and tented Bang Bang Bay Chalet.—
Luann Gibbs,
The Enquirer,
18 Dec. 2024
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Even the West Indian drywood termite, the one that prompts tenting, is technically invasive.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
26 Feb. 2024
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The return of the remains Thursday had set off a nationwide outpouring of grief as flag-waving crowds lined highways on a rainy day to pay their respects to a convoy carrying the coffins and thousands packed a Tel Aviv square in an emotional nighttime vigil.—
MELANIE LIDMAN,
arkansasonline.com,
21 Feb. 2025
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Related:Israelis ask if world has forgotten their hostages six months after the trauma of Oct. 7 Israel awaits for the return of its slain Once in Israel Thursday, crowds carrying Israeli flags lined streets to pay tribute as a convoy transporting the bodies drove past.—
Chris Kenning,
USA TODAY,
20 Feb. 2025
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While many of Charlie Burness' peers are settling into long-term careers, homeownership, or parenthood, Burness has a different plan—backpacking for a year.—
Tom Rogers,
Newsweek,
22 Feb. 2025
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The reality: Figuring out how to eat better on a backpacking trip doesn’t need to be complicated.—
Adam Roy,
Outside Online,
15 Feb. 2025
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“Caravan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caravan. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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