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wandering

[won-der-ing] / ˈwɒn dər ɪŋ /


ADJECTIVE
nomadic
Synonyms


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This network seems to engage with our self-referential thinking and autobiographical memory—the sorts of things we think about when we are at rest, our minds wandering.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

The Los Angeles River was still pretty much what it had been for eons: a wandering river of the West, often nothing more than damp wetlands in summer, but quickening into rushwaters in winter.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2026

After 01:00, Hugo is seen wandering the corridor on his own.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

She once recalled wandering into a flowery field and becoming disoriented among the seemingly endless stalks and blooms—a sensation she likened to “obliteration” and would seek to re-create in her art.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

And the mine shaft into which she had fallen trying to save a wandering calf had been closed in long ago.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

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

After that, his unclaimed body began its wanderings: as a greeter for an Oklahoma funeral home, as a sideshow attraction for touring carnivals, and even in a titillating 1933 pre-Code film, “Narcotic.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 4, 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

“No, no, it was my fault, I’m afraid. I kept your boy here listening to the wanderings of an old lady.”

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep




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