1
as in tour
a short trip for pleasure
our weekend excursions have encompassed virtually all parts of our home state
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2
as in tangent
a departure from the subject under consideration
the professor's frequent and sometimes far-ranging excursions in his lectures are the stuff of campus legend
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Recent Examples of excursion
Trail runners can be used in place of hiking boots for many types of excursions.
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Rabekah Henderson, Southern Living, 16 Jan. 2025
After boarding the Viking Star docked in Barcelona, my first excursion brought me inside Gaudi’s Casa Batllo, a UNESCO World Heritage site esteemed for its spectacular, Catalan modernist style.
—Gqlshare, Orange County Register, 15 Jan. 2025
The exterior of this beautiful jacket is that of a peacoat, while quilted lining at the interior effectively blocks out cold air (a must during sightseeing excursions).
—Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2025
The excursion was part of a week of workouts, dinners and bonding organized by veterans Jarrett Stidham and Courtland Sutton.
—Nick Kosmider, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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Rabekah Henderson, Southern Living, 16 Jan. 2025
After boarding the Viking Star docked in Barcelona, my first excursion brought me inside Gaudi’s Casa Batllo, a UNESCO World Heritage site esteemed for its spectacular, Catalan modernist style.
—Gqlshare, Orange County Register, 15 Jan. 2025
The exterior of this beautiful jacket is that of a peacoat, while quilted lining at the interior effectively blocks out cold air (a must during sightseeing excursions).
—Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2025
The excursion was part of a week of workouts, dinners and bonding organized by veterans Jarrett Stidham and Courtland Sutton.
—Nick Kosmider, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for excursion
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Cena, who is currently on a retirement tour and has held 16 world championships, is expected to leave WWE by the end of 2025.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
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No additional shows have been announced yet, but the tour is expected to stretch into 2026.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
21 Jan. 2025
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Betty White's sweet, ever-cheery Rose — a role that snagged her an Emmy Award in 1986 — may not have all the zingers on The Golden Girls, but her rants and tangents draw priceless looks from her housemates and adoration from viewers.—
Margaret Lyons,
EW.com,
17 Jan. 2025
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On a different topic but related tangent, even lawyers have gotten caught off-guard by overly relying on AI to provide legal expertise when the AI was completely mistaken, see my analysis at the link here.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
31 Dec. 2024
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An eclectic cast, ranging from dancers in their 20s to their 50s, gels for a bouncy jaunt (pro forma in Estanich’s works), with each dancer having generous time and vocabulary for him or herself.—
Lauren Warnecke,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Jan. 2025
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The night started with a statement drive by Los Angeles, which scored on a seven-play, 70-yard jaunt on the game’s first possession.—
Rohan Nadkarni,
NBC News,
14 Jan. 2025
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Nowhere is colder and more inhospitable in the whole of Season 1 than Episode’s 1 high mountain moors scenes where José Arcadio’s expedition edges along a path half way up a precipice, a mule slipping into the void.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
20 Jan. 2025
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Governments and private companies are preparing to return astronauts to the lunar surface within a few years, then moving on to dispatch human expeditions to the red planet.—
Stephen Clark,
Ars Technica,
14 Jan. 2025
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The latest adventure featuring Sega’s iconic video game speedster will get past a $225 million domestic total this outing, settling in as the ninth-highest-grossing title of 2024.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
25 Jan. 2025
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But as audience editor David Viramontes writes in Screen Gab No. 165, the sophomore outing of Netflix’s South Korean hit had its own merits that risk being lost in the comparison.—
Meredith Blake,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Excursion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excursion. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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