peregrinate
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Regardless of how they get there, they seem to peregrinate in a fog, for which they can hardly be blamed: In Brighton Beach, questions are deeply frowned upon, then ignored.
From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2018
Having those moments to pause and peregrinate keeps us nimble for the duration — and I can only imagine how salutary they are for the cast.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2017
He is too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, and, as it were, too peregrinate, as I may call it.
From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Bacon
He is too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were; too peregrinate, as I may call it; he draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 by Various
But I seem to travel, to peregrinate, less and less—and I am reduced to living on my past accumulations.
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James
The movement has even peregrinated into popular music.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2015
But its particular pleasures remained; New Orleans musicians who traveled north introduced others to jazz, while nightlife peregrinated toward the French Quarter and, eventually, Bourbon Street.
From Washington Post
I may well have promenaded, pedestrianized, peregrinated, ambulated, perambulated, circumambulated, hoofed, and locomoted ...
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Peterson has peregrinated 75,000 miles, given 1,239 exhibitions, walked goo miles around tables making 92,000 fancy shots for his uniformed audiences.
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Her small, white-shod feet continued to bear her onward, away from him, while his own dimmed shoes peregrinated in the opposite direction—William necessarily, yet with excruciating reluctance, accompanying them.
From Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William by Booth Tarkington
When next we meet them, Williams and Merlo are peregrinating through 1953 Italy.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2019
For last January peregrinating Director Mann set out for the East Indies, sponsored by the Smithsonian and the National Geographic Society.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Vox populi: too much peregrinating, 45%; okay, 36%; no opinion, 6%; none of their business, 13%.
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He eyed her wonderingly, but she was looking very innocently at the peregrinating chipmunk.
From Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course by W. B. M. (William Blair Morton) Ferguson
Peregrinā′tion, act of peregrinating or travelling about; Per′egrinātor, one who travels about.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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