wanderlust
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At 21, wanderlust — that aching desire to escape to somewhere else — took hold of Elizabeth Short.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026
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
It encouraged wanderlust as Sal and Dean traveled across the country, indulging in their freedoms and desires with almost reckless abandon.
From Salon • Jul. 30, 2025
Watts's main advice for readers with a similar wanderlust is to consider travelling further afield.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2025
For, no matter where fate, happenstance, or wanderlust might carry her, Penelope was a Swanburne girl, through and through.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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