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also galavant
as in to wander
to move about from place to place aimlessly
gallivanted about the country before returning to school in the fall
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Recent Examples of gallivant
Employing her roommate and friend Fergus Campbell as a director, Latour gallivanted across Columbia's campus with roommates and friends as background actors.
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Tamia Fowlkes, Journal Sentinel, 28 June 2024
Tonight, the gang is gallivanting off the yacht, the charter season’s first opportunity for extracurricular activity.
—Molly Fitzpatrick, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2024
Book 2: The Viscount Who Loved Me Anthony Bridgerton is ready to get married after gallivanting around London.
—Kari Sonde, TIME, 21 May 2024
Scott, at his most creepy and conniving, plays Tom Ripley, a low-rent con artist in New York in the 1960s who gets the opportunity of a lifetime when a rich shipping magnate employs him to convince the man's wayward heir to come home and stop gallivanting across Italy.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2024
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Tamia Fowlkes, Journal Sentinel, 28 June 2024
Tonight, the gang is gallivanting off the yacht, the charter season’s first opportunity for extracurricular activity.
—Molly Fitzpatrick, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2024
Book 2: The Viscount Who Loved Me Anthony Bridgerton is ready to get married after gallivanting around London.
—Kari Sonde, TIME, 21 May 2024
Scott, at his most creepy and conniving, plays Tom Ripley, a low-rent con artist in New York in the 1960s who gets the opportunity of a lifetime when a rich shipping magnate employs him to convince the man's wayward heir to come home and stop gallivanting across Italy.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gallivant
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Thirty years earlier, in 1995, on the weekend before Quebec’s second referendum on independence, my family and I went to Montreal to wander the city, to try to sense what Quebeckers were feeling, but mostly just to be there.—
Ken Dryden,
The Atlantic,
23 Feb. 2025
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Keep an eye out for chachalaca, green jays, Altamira orioles, and the occasional rare avian visitor that wanders in from faraway.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
21 Feb. 2025
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The legacy of the British Q-ships During World War I, more than 200 Q-ships—and perhaps as many as 400—roamed the seas.—
Sean Kingsley,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 Feb. 2025
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As nocturnal creatures, this provides them with a comfortable space to freely roam about.—
Sarah Han,
Allure,
16 Feb. 2025
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West, now legally known as Ye, spent much of Thursday night into Saturday morning rambling and rampaging on X, at one point declaring his respect for both Adolf Hitler and 55-year-old Combs, the latter of whom is currently behind bars in New York City.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
8 Feb. 2025
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Arizona gave up 140 rush yards or more eight times last fall — CU rambled for 148 in Tucson — and went 1-7 in those tilts.—
Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
7 Feb. 2025
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There's already a shooting revealed in the Season 3 premiere, with at least one body floating in the water.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA TODAY,
17 Feb. 2025
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Zion’s still pondering his next move when a body floats by him in the hotel moat.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
16 Feb. 2025
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