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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

Over the course of her long and peripatetic life, Carrington never stopped creating, producing hundreds—possibly thousands—of paintings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

From the peripatetic days bouncing around a handful of clubs and juggling six part-time jobs in the amateur women's football era to juggling endorsements galore as a one-person global brand.

From BBC • May 30, 2025

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

From Salon • Jan. 27, 2025

From their habit of strolling around the campus of a great university or through the streets of the city while discussing such issues, the old school of ‘scientific’ philosophy was known as the peripatetic school.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin




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