peripatetic
Example Sentences
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It brings to mind not just dressing and African-American fashions, but also the historically peripatetic nature of black communities due to the oppression of Jim Crow and redlining.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The latter is the hangover from a peripatetic childhood defined and dominated by his charismatic father, a once-idealistic scholar whose dreams of a Arab utopia soured into authoritarian megalomania.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
This was a fossilized program taking on a divisive, peripatetic local who’d pledged his prior job was going to be his “last job.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
When Covid hit in 2020, she was working as a full-time peripatetic music teacher, and as learning moved online, she realised she was no longer tied to the UK.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026
Fischer’s assurances notwithstanding, his peripatetic alpine career was rough on his family.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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