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Recent Examples of hitchhike
Houseplant pests typically hitchhike a ride into your home.
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 13 Apr. 2025
The complaint alleges that staff regularly sent students unattended to hitchhike for errands.
—Glynis Kazanjian, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2025
The first incident describes an alleged rape in 1971 when the plaintiff, then a 14-year-old student, was sent on a hitchhiking errand by a school dormitory counselor to purchase groceries from a nearby Kosher grocery store, Shapiro’s.
—Glynis Kazanjian, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2025
Rahill hitchhiked across the country to upstate New York for his sister’s graduation.
—Uma Raja, Sun Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2025
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 13 Apr. 2025
The complaint alleges that staff regularly sent students unattended to hitchhike for errands.
—Glynis Kazanjian, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2025
The first incident describes an alleged rape in 1971 when the plaintiff, then a 14-year-old student, was sent on a hitchhiking errand by a school dormitory counselor to purchase groceries from a nearby Kosher grocery store, Shapiro’s.
—Glynis Kazanjian, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2025
Rahill hitchhiked across the country to upstate New York for his sister’s graduation.
—Uma Raja, Sun Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hitchhike
Verb
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The company has refined the trailer somewhat in that time, but its main selling points remain the same: the ability to hitch itself to a towing vehicle and set itself up at the campground.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
8 May 2025
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Load it with lumber, hitch a trailer, or even drive into a strong headwind, and that figure can drop faster than your enthusiasm on a Monday morning.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
13 May 2025
Verb
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Everyone — from those actually paying to the ones still bumming a log-in — wants to know how Netflix and other streaming services’ crackdowns on password sharing affect them.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
20 May 2025
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Fans who hoped to see them on the red carpet at last week’s Met Gala were bummed.—
Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
11 May 2025
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“Hitchhike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hitchhike. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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