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nomad

[noh-mad] / ˈnoʊ mæd /
NOUN
person who wanders from place to place
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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

The idea of being a digital nomad with no oversight is romantic, but when your income is project-based or hourly billed, you start feeling like every waking moment you aren’t working is costing you money.

From MarketWatch Mar. 16, 2026

He described himself as a "spiritual nomad", exploring paths through yoga, Buddhism, and Christian mysticism, and learned from the Dalai Lama - whom he gifted a tartan-pouched hair clipper in 1988.

From BBC Jul. 15, 2025

With no money and no time to settle, we moved to a different ramshackle rental cottage or boardinghouse every season until I was so pregnant with Rachel that our nomad state seemed disreputable.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

It’s set in a bougie bohemian realm inhabited by actors and writers, cultural nomads who have mystery and money, and a tinge of the sordid about them.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 16, 2026

Claudio Ranieri's pizza-loving Leicester nomads stormed to the Premier League summit and, after briefly giving up top spot to Arsenal, surged clear to become 5,000-1-shot winners.

From BBC Apr. 13, 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

I saw the Libyan Desert, where nomads tend their camels as they did a thousand years ago.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins




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