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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

I’d start at the Musée Yves Saint Laurent and Jardin Majorelle, then take my time wandering through the medina without a strict plan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 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

“I suppose I ought to find out when her birthday is. Blast! I hope I didn’t write it in the almanac. It’s a slippery book, that almanac, always wandering off....”

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

Lucas, 61, a musician from Bristol, travels to the Lake District in Cumbria for one week every month and regularly posts pictures of his wanderings.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 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

But we could have done a better job of identifying and pursuing the wanderings that were most important to us.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025

After that, his unclaimed body began its wanderings: as a greeter for an Oklahoma funeral home, as a sideshow attraction for touring carnivals, and even in a titillating 1933 pre-Code film, “Narcotic.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2025

On the other days he had carried them around with him during boring wanderings through the business district and the Quarter.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole


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