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
From the peripatetic days bouncing around a handful of clubs and juggling six part-time jobs in the amateur women's football era to juggling endorsements galore as a one-person global brand.
From BBC • May 30, 2025
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
According to Elaine Godfrey of the Atlantic, that relationship is the one "throughline" in her politically peripatetic career.
From Salon • Jan. 27, 2025
I had to be peripatetic eyes and ears, a kind of moving gelatin plate.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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