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nomad

[noh-mad] / ˈnoʊ mæd /
NOUN
person who wanders from place to place
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It has been a whirlwind couple of years for Batty, whose teenage years were spent living as a nomad in France.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

I laughed when a protégé called me a digital nomad in the gig economy, like him.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

Once the nomad larvae hatch, they kill the host bee larvae and consume the stored pollen and nectar intended for the mining bees.

From Science Daily ● May 28, 2026

However, this nomad only looked like a pauper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

He was the city of kings, and the voice of Scheherazade, the whirling dervishes that leap, the fire worshippers, the nomad Kurds, and the eighteen sheep.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

Valencia has become one of Europe’s premier locations for digital nomads.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

The Afar region of north-eastern Ethiopia is one of the hottest and driest places on Earth, where nomads often lead camel caravans carrying salt through the desert.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

If there was any thought that this was a fleeting pandemic-era experiment of laptop nomads logging in from distant shores, data hints at its longevity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

Multiple battles with Claudius’ henchmen pepper Scarlet and Hijiri’s journey, as does an encounter with the United Nations of this place: a group of wandering nomads from around the world who’ve come together for companionship.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026

How long did we live this way, like nomads on the far edges of the war?

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood




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