as in nomadic
traveling from place to place
a peripatetic reporter for a cable news network
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That’s the inescapable conclusion for me at this point after a sort of impromptu, peripatetic mini-seminar conducted by Rosenthal here in Mountain Pass, Calif., near the Nevada border.
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IEEE Spectrum, 27 Dec. 2024
The rebels who toppled Assad are led by Abu Mohammad al-Julani, a man who has spent the better part of his adult life as a peripatetic jihadist mercenary.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
Since the time of Jawaharlal Nehru, no Indian prime minister has been so peripatetic.
—Sumit Ganguly, Foreign Affairs, 8 Mar. 2018
Among the other exhibitions König curated were the Austrian Pavilion at the Fiftieth Venice Biennale in 2003 and the peripatetic European biennial Manifesta 10 in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2014.
—News Desk, Artforum, 12 Aug. 2024
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IEEE Spectrum, 27 Dec. 2024
The rebels who toppled Assad are led by Abu Mohammad al-Julani, a man who has spent the better part of his adult life as a peripatetic jihadist mercenary.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
Since the time of Jawaharlal Nehru, no Indian prime minister has been so peripatetic.
—Sumit Ganguly, Foreign Affairs, 8 Mar. 2018
Among the other exhibitions König curated were the Austrian Pavilion at the Fiftieth Venice Biennale in 2003 and the peripatetic European biennial Manifesta 10 in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2014.
—News Desk, Artforum, 12 Aug. 2024
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“Peripatetic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peripatetic. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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