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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 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

Or the moons are two wandering asteroids from the outer Solar System, which were grabbed by the Red Planet's gravity.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

She set off down a shadowed path, wandering alone past obelisks, stone angels, and granite buildings in this city of the dead.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

The narrator relates his implausible wanderings around an inverted empire in which there is no center of power or culture, a world that seems to be all peripheries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Evidence of these wanderings arrives in L.A. this fall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 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

Susie, who is somewhat of a local celebrity in Dorchester, Dorset, has become so popular that an illustrated book has been published about her wanderings.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2025

A second later the sheep all moved away, back to their regular peaceful wanderings.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan


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