peripatetic
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The peripatetic, polarizing basketball coach steers St. John’s to its first Sweet 16 in 27 seasons.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
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
For many athletes retirement means the end of a career; for the peripatetic Donovan, it’s become an opportunity to try out a whole bunch of new ones.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2024
It’s the reason the first philosophers were peripatetic.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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