walkabout

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Recent Examples of walkabout George, 11, Charlotte, 9, and Louis, 6, were joined by their parents Prince William and Kate Middleton and the rest of the royal family for the annual Dec. 25 walkabout following a morning church service at St. Mary Magdalene on Sandringham’s grounds. Rachel Burchfield, People.com, 27 Dec. 2024 Those eft walkabouts are a critical time to look for the best food while the juvenile newt grows and matures. Christine Peterson, Vox, 23 Dec. 2024 Their little walkabout date is so awkward and wonderful. Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2024 The video begins with a clip of William and Kate during a walkabout on The Mall, by Buckingham Palace, in London, on May 5, 2023, one day before King Charles III's coronation. Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for walkabout 
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Noun
  • Maybe the Buckeyes should find other transportation during the next Playoff trip.
    Chris Branch, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
  • This trip is for ages 10 and up, and children must be accompanied by an adult.
    Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The guide includes activity suggestions, travel tips and practical information.
    Roger Sands, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
  • All schools in Ireland and Northern Ireland were closed on Friday, while hundreds were also shuttered across Scotland, with Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney also warning against travel.
    Sophie Tanno, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Nowhere is colder and more inhospitable in the whole of Season 1 than Episode’s 1 high mountain moors scenes where José Arcadio’s expedition edges along a path half way up a precipice, a mule slipping into the void.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Governments and private companies are preparing to return astronauts to the lunar surface within a few years, then moving on to dispatch human expeditions to the red planet.
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Since the trek, she’s been working on developing a biopic about her own life and career.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2025
  • It’s described as a moderately challenging trek by AllTrails.
    Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • On Saline’s first drive, Carr — who nearly had his first throw get picked off — went 6-for-6 for 55 yards as the nine-play, 80-yard march was capped by a 15-yard TD run by Rush.
    Brad Emons, Detroit Free Press, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Blake’s grandfather, Jacob Blake Sr., was a prominent minister and civil rights leader in the Chicago area who helped organize a march and spoke in support of comprehensive housing law in Evanston, Ill., days after the 1968 assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
    Stephanie Pagones, Fox News, 24 Aug. 2020
Noun
  • The union still wants pay hikes and has refused to accept factory closures and mass layoffs, while Volkswagen wants 10% pay cuts and plans to shutter at least three factories and lop head count by tens of thousands.
    Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Jan. 2025
  • One of the compartments is waterproof, which is helpful for protecting your items during a hike or other outdoor activity, or it can be used to store toiletries during a trip.
    Rachel Trujillo, Travel + Leisure, 26 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • That is, the probability of the wanderer starting in neighborhood A and ending up in neighborhood B—the macroscale behavior—remains the same regardless of which streets within A or B the walker randomly traverses.
    Philip Ball, WIRED, 21 July 2024
  • But how can one area have no electricity while homes in a nearby community still have their lights on? D’Agostino told the Union-Tribune last month that power lines traverse areas where risky fire conditions are located.
    Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Daniels’ first foray into the horror genre shot to No. 1 on Netflix after dropping Aug. 30, which may have a little bit — or a whole lot — to do with Close, who clearly had the time of her life playing a tramp named Alberta.
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2024
  • On March 7, 1913, rescuers were desperately searching the same waters for survivors of the Alum Cine, a British tramp steamer, that exploded while being loaded with 350 tons of dynamite (nine boxcars’ worth) that was bound to Panama for construction of the canal that was underway.
    Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2024

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“Walkabout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/walkabout. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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