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peripatetic

[per-uh-puh-tet-ik] / ˌpɛr ə pəˈtɛt ɪk /


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It’s just a day in the life of the peripatetic wolf, who was born in far Northeastern California in 2023.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

Over the course of her long and peripatetic life, Carrington never stopped creating, producing hundreds—possibly thousands—of paintings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 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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