wandering
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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 prefer wandering a local market, imagining what I might make for dinner.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
He talks for more than an hour, his remarks wandering here, there and everywhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Or the moons are two wandering asteroids from the outer Solar System, which were grabbed by the Red Planet's gravity.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Except for the ones headed for Pain, he loved all the wandering spirits who came through Deadwood.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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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
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
Dunthorne, in his wanderings, uncovers some impacts, direct and indirect, of his great-grandfather’s actions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2025
During one collaboration, he and Philip Abelson were bedeviled by the erratic performance of an ionization chamber until Abelson noticed that its behavior corresponded to Kamen’s wanderings around the room.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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