peregrinate
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Regardless of how they get there, they seem to peregrinate in a fog, for which they can hardly be blamed: In Brighton Beach, questions are deeply frowned upon, then ignored.
From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2018
Having those moments to pause and peregrinate keeps us nimble for the duration — and I can only imagine how salutary they are for the cast.
From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2017
I go there on the 10th to remain till May; but I am sorry to say I see little hope of my being able to peregrinate to far Provence—all benignant though your invitation be.
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry
He is too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were; too peregrinate, as I may call it; he draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 by Various
He is too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, and, as it were, too peregrinate, as I may call it.
From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Bacon, Delia
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