peripatetic
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His dual nationality and peripatetic, bi-cultural upbringing, combined with travel grants in 1927 and 1949 that took him all over Europe, Asia and North Africa, produced arguably the most cosmopolitan artist of his generation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 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
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
Fischer’s assurances notwithstanding, his peripatetic alpine career was rough on his family.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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