as in nomadic
traveling from place to place
a peripatetic reporter for a cable news network
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Even for a peripatetic former diplomat, that’s a busy travel schedule.
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Shane Harris, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2025
His father was a research scientist for the Department of Agriculture, and his peripatetic family lived in the plains states, the Pacific Northwest and the Southeast before settling in Alexandria, Virginia, where Lynch attended high school.
—Chris Morris, Variety, 16 Jan. 2025
By then, Randle was near the end of a peripatetic career, which had begun in 1971 with the Washington Senators.
—Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
That’s the inescapable conclusion for me at this point after a sort of impromptu, peripatetic mini-seminar conducted by Rosenthal here in Mountain Pass, Calif., near the Nevada border.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 Dec. 2024
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Shane Harris, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2025
His father was a research scientist for the Department of Agriculture, and his peripatetic family lived in the plains states, the Pacific Northwest and the Southeast before settling in Alexandria, Virginia, where Lynch attended high school.
—Chris Morris, Variety, 16 Jan. 2025
By then, Randle was near the end of a peripatetic career, which had begun in 1971 with the Washington Senators.
—Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
That’s the inescapable conclusion for me at this point after a sort of impromptu, peripatetic mini-seminar conducted by Rosenthal here in Mountain Pass, Calif., near the Nevada border.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 Dec. 2024
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“Peripatetic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peripatetic. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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