peripatetic
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After spending his peripatetic 20s and 30s as a self-described “almost-successful serial entrepreneur,” he decided to settle down when he turned 40.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 10, 2026
Far from it: Nadel, a museum curator and comics expert, expresses palpable admiration for Crumb, and sympathy for a peripatetic upbringing that could quietly be as macabre as anything he drew.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025
Eugene Allen Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, in 1930 and led a peripatetic childhood.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2025
According to Elaine Godfrey of the Atlantic, that relationship is the one "throughline" in her politically peripatetic career.
From Salon • Jan. 27, 2025
It’s the reason the first philosophers were peripatetic.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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