as in nomadic
traveling from place to place
an itinerant musician can see a lot of the world
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Recent Examples of itinerant
Sirat centers on a father and son joining a group of itinerant ravers in the deserts of Morocco in search for one last party.
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Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 24 May 2025
He was born in 1930 to a father who was an itinerant salesman and a mother who ran a small store.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2025
There is certainly plenty of upside for the Fire, which has yet to ignite a large following among Chicago sports fans during much of the team’s somewhat itinerant 27-year history.
—Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2025
The bureaucracy needed to confirm eligibility is costly; the available technology is often outdated; some determinations are unavoidably subjective; and communicating new rules to an itinerant population with brisk job turnover is a challenge, to say the least.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 27 May 2025
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Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 24 May 2025
He was born in 1930 to a father who was an itinerant salesman and a mother who ran a small store.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2025
There is certainly plenty of upside for the Fire, which has yet to ignite a large following among Chicago sports fans during much of the team’s somewhat itinerant 27-year history.
—Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2025
The bureaucracy needed to confirm eligibility is costly; the available technology is often outdated; some determinations are unavoidably subjective; and communicating new rules to an itinerant population with brisk job turnover is a challenge, to say the least.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 27 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for itinerant
nomadic
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One hypothesis as to how the fossils ended up there is that seasonal nomadic livestock herders traded meat and goods such as fossils with local inhabitants, in exchange for use of their land.—
Lauren Liebhaber,
Miami Herald,
24 June 2025
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Seed, who followed her parents’ career paths as a photographer, also discovered a trove of her mother’s own photographs, revealing a distinctive, clear-eyed aesthetic and a nomadic itch.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
19 June 2025
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“Itinerant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/itinerant. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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