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wandering

[won-der-ing] / ˈwɒn dər ɪŋ /


ADJECTIVE
nomadic
Synonyms


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Harried passengers stared at their phones, calm but annoyed, wandering the airport terminal without clear direction.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026

When the wandering pooch finally narrowed his territory, Packer set up a humane trap and spent several days and nights nearby, waiting for Anchovy Jack to take the bait.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

I prefer wandering a local market, imagining what I might make for dinner.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

England began their wandering winter with a sloppy loss to Pakistan in the one-day tri-series in Rawalpindi.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Many wandering souls were eager to meet their destiny, which was most assuredly better than their scrounging, struggling existence in this world.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

The narrator relates his implausible wanderings around an inverted empire in which there is no center of power or culture, a world that seems to be all peripheries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Evidence of these wanderings arrives in L.A. this fall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Inside this edition, Cranach's map presents the stations of the wilderness wanderings and the division of the Promised Land into twelve tribal regions.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2025

Francis, meanwhile, continued his anthropological wanderings, carrying whatever insights or regrets he gained from that night into his studies of other cultures' sacred rituals.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2025

Poor Psyche in her despairing wanderings was trying to win the gods over to her side.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton


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