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Recent Examples of drifter Though the bones tell the tale of a drifter's death between 2006 to 2008, there are not any more details about when or where Hietamaki was before that. Karen Bartunek, The Arizona Republic, 7 Nov. 2024 Cindy Lee: Diamond Jubilee The 32-track magnum opus from the glamorous alter-ego of Canadian musician Patrick Flegel hit the scene like some old movie where a mysterious drifter shows up with their guitar to breathe new life into a sleepy town. Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024 Patriarch Royal Abbott has a lot to deal with from the very first episode with the arrival of a nefarious drifter named Autumn and a fight between Royal’s son Perry and Trevor Tillerson that escalates into murder. Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 15 May 2024 But open it and immediately get transported into a black-and-white world of drifters with piercing, thousand-yard stares, and dusty, unforgiving landscapes and structures. Donny Bajohr, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for drifter 

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“Drifter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drifter. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.

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