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peripatetic

[per-uh-puh-tet-ik] / ˌpɛr ə pəˈtɛt ɪk /


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This was a fossilized program taking on a divisive, peripatetic local who’d pledged his prior job was going to be his “last job.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

But sales in those countries have in the main been peripatetic, with many firms only offering tastings or serving it in upmarket restaurants for short periods.

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2025

According to Elaine Godfrey of the Atlantic, that relationship is the one "throughline" in her politically peripatetic career.

From Salon • Jan. 27, 2025

But Horn, 68, an intellectually peripatetic Conceptualist, has an innate confidence, which may stem from the fact that she does not feel she fits in anywhere, personally or professionally, and never has.

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2024

It’s the reason the first philosophers were peripatetic.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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