peripatetic
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It brings to mind not just dressing and African-American fashions, but also the historically peripatetic nature of black communities due to the oppression of Jim Crow and redlining.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Among that group, the peripatetic Roger Brown is the subject of a capsule show at GRAY’s New York outpost.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The latter is the hangover from a peripatetic childhood defined and dominated by his charismatic father, a once-idealistic scholar whose dreams of a Arab utopia soured into authoritarian megalomania.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
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
It’s the reason the first philosophers were peripatetic.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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