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

But sales in those countries have in the main been peripatetic, with many firms only offering tastings or serving it in upmarket restaurants for short periods.

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2025

Far from it: Nadel, a museum curator and comics expert, expresses palpable admiration for Crumb, and sympathy for a peripatetic upbringing that could quietly be as macabre as anything he drew.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025

According to Elaine Godfrey of the Atlantic, that relationship is the one "throughline" in her politically peripatetic career.

From Salon • Jan. 27, 2025

I had to be peripatetic eyes and ears, a kind of moving gelatin plate.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck