as in to stay
to reside as a temporary guest
began their retirement by leisurely sojourning with friends and relatives scattered across the country
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Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 9 Feb. 2025
Brooks tells the story of James’s return to America in 1904 and his observations of the country, after his happy childhood in pre-Civil War New York and his sojourns in Paris and London.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Michael S. Williamson, Washington Post, 22 June 2024
From inside Epstein's enigmatic waterfront temple to the pristine beaches, pools, and cabanas scattered across his 71-acres of prime archipelagic real estate, the data compiled by Near captures the movements of scores of people who sojourned at Little St. James as early as July 2016.
—Dhruv Mehrotra, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2024
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Noun
But Navis also had the challenge of portraying some very different communities — including most of Mo’s sojourn in Mexico City — mostly on location in Houston.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 9 Feb. 2025
Brooks tells the story of James’s return to America in 1904 and his observations of the country, after his happy childhood in pre-Civil War New York and his sojourns in Paris and London.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
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Civil rights tourism had been a boon to the state economy — 4 in 10 visitors come to the state to see the civil rights sites in Montgomery, 2 in 10 go to 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, according to the state tourism bureau — but his city offered little to those who sojourned there.
—Michael S. Williamson, Washington Post, 22 June 2024
From inside Epstein's enigmatic waterfront temple to the pristine beaches, pools, and cabanas scattered across his 71-acres of prime archipelagic real estate, the data compiled by Near captures the movements of scores of people who sojourned at Little St. James as early as July 2016.
—Dhruv Mehrotra, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2024
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“Sojourn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sojourn. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.
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