peripatetic
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He accomplished very good things in Oxford and he’s turned his career in a steadier direction after a peripatetic start as a football wunderkind.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025
Eugene Allen Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, in 1930 and led a peripatetic childhood.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 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
From their habit of strolling around the campus of a great university or through the streets of the city while discussing such issues, the old school of ‘scientific’ philosophy was known as the peripatetic school.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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