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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
hitchhike .
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Examples
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To find the adaptation signal, Petrov and his colleagues looked for regions of the genome that "hitchhiked" along with an adaptation.
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To find the adaptation signal, Petrov and his colleagues looked for regions of the genome that "hitchhiked" along with an adaptation.
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But a spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said that a new strategy was in place to "tackle the threat to the UK's native biodiversity from unwanted pest species which have 'hitchhiked' into the UK on plants".
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With a stirred heart filled with the sounds of longing, I hitchhiked myself along the most extraordinary love trip possible.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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On the day Último left Ricardo Flores he had said goodbye to his abuelita, who was old, but not to his mother, and hitchhiked to Buenaventura, where he got a ride north to Las Palomas.
Alba 2009
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So convinced that I had pulled a muscle, I hitchhiked a ride back home, with a million thoughts racing.
Katie Spotz: Girl Meets Bike Katie Spotz 2011
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She walked for days across the desert, then hitchhiked to relatives in Mogadishu, evading both human and natural dangers.
Film Tracks Woman's Path from Desert Nomad to Supermodel Activist 2011
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After he dropped them off, they hitchhiked the rest of the way back to Chicago, getting in around noon.
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
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She walked for days across the desert, then hitchhiked to relatives in Mogadishu, evading both human and natural dangers.
Film Tracks Woman's Path from Desert Nomad to Supermodel Activist 2011
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On the day Último left Ricardo Flores he had said goodbye to his abuelita, who was old, but not to his mother, and hitchhiked to Buenaventura, where he got a ride north to Las Palomas.
Alba 2009
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