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wandering

[won-der-ing] / ˈwɒn dər ɪŋ /


ADJECTIVE
nomadic
Synonyms


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Harried passengers stared at their phones, calm but annoyed, wandering the airport terminal without clear direction.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026

I’d start at the Musée Yves Saint Laurent and Jardin Majorelle, then take my time wandering through the medina without a strict plan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

I prefer wandering a local market, imagining what I might make for dinner.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

The Angels had just reached the promised land, after more than four decades of wandering through baseball’s wilderness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

As for our fellow refugees, maybe they had been too dazed, too traumatized, or just too tired to pay much attention to this young elephant that was wandering along with them.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

Throughout his wanderings to piece together her identity, we are never given a definitive explanation of why this woman captivates him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Inside this edition, Cranach's map presents the stations of the wilderness wanderings and the division of the Promised Land into twelve tribal regions.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2025

Francis, meanwhile, continued his anthropological wanderings, carrying whatever insights or regrets he gained from that night into his studies of other cultures' sacred rituals.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2025

As I Walk This Tidal Path is based on psychogeographic wanderings in the Thames estuary.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2024

Finally, at the end of all our wanderings, we return to our tiny, fragile, blue-white world, lost in a cosmic ocean vast beyond our most courageous imaginings.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan


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