peripatetic
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He draws on the photographer’s diaries and autobiography to portray his subject as a gentle-souled adventurer, driven into a peripatetic life by wanderlust and financial necessity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
According to Elaine Godfrey of the Atlantic, that relationship is the one "throughline" in her politically peripatetic career.
From Salon • Jan. 27, 2025
For many athletes retirement means the end of a career; for the peripatetic Donovan, it’s become an opportunity to try out a whole bunch of new ones.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2024
But Horn, 68, an intellectually peripatetic Conceptualist, has an innate confidence, which may stem from the fact that she does not feel she fits in anywhere, personally or professionally, and never has.
From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2024
Fischer’s assurances notwithstanding, his peripatetic alpine career was rough on his family.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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