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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

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

A portion of those clients are distant descendants seeking a second citizenship, while another crop of those clients are seeking passive income visas for retirees and digital nomad visas for remote workers, Pinto said.

From Salon ● May 18, 2025

The invention of grafting was hardly just a matter of some nomad relieving herself at a latrine and returning later to be pleasantly surprised by the resulting crop of fine fruit.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Shen and Leung credited their decision to build financial assets, rather than home equity, with giving them the financial independence to retire early, and live off their portfolio as digital nomads around the world.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

The company focuses its offering on so-called digital nomads, and previously said it would target metropolitan areas with large expatriate communities to drive U.S. growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

In a statement posted on Friday, Entourage Bali said that its run clubs were "open for everyone, including non-digital nomads".

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 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

Demographically speaking, they lived in the hinterlands, remote and thinly settled; their lives were as far from Wari or Toltec lords as the nomads of Siberia were from the grandees of Beijing.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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