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peripatetic

[per-uh-puh-tet-ik] / ˌpɛr ə pəˈtɛt ɪk /


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It’s just a day in the life of the peripatetic wolf, who was born in far Northeastern California in 2023.

From Los Angeles Times May 18, 2026

This was a fossilized program taking on a divisive, peripatetic local who’d pledged his prior job was going to be his “last job.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 23, 2026

When Covid hit in 2020, she was working as a full-time peripatetic music teacher, and as learning moved online, she realised she was no longer tied to the UK.

From BBC Mar. 5, 2026

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

Like Gilbert, Galileo practised what he preached, and it was the peripatetic approach that was blown apart by his work in Italy late in the sixteenth century and early in the seventeenth century.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin




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