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itinerant

[ahy-tin-er-uhnt, ih-tin-] / aɪˈtɪn ər ənt, ɪˈtɪn- /


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Adams had an itinerant upbringing, spending a formative part of his early years in Europe before moving to Ohio, where he attended high school and college.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Ms. Gerson takes her book’s title from the biblical story of the Exodus—“my father was a wandering Aramean”—to remind us of the itinerant past all humans share.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

Police have described the suspect as an "itinerant" worker who had travelled to Australia on multiple occasions between 2019 and 2024, and had addresses in the states of Victoria and New South Wales.

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2026

The military is perennially short on pilots, and what animates most young men and women to sign up certainly isn’t the pay or the itinerant lifestyle.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

Columbus had been an itinerant peddler of old maps and an assiduous reader of the books by and about the ancient geographers, including Eratosthenes, Strabo and Ptolemy.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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