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
At the time of the fatwa, Gibney’s movie shows, Rushdie went into a kind of itinerant hiding in England, ferried by intelligence services from location to location.
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Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 16 Jan. 2026
Weir’s friendship with the itinerant folk singer Ramblin’ Jack Elliott began in the early 1960s, and in the new millennium, Elliott and Weir frequently performed low-key shows together in Marin County, where both resided.
—Erin Osmon, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2026
The itinerant Friend’s spectacular style drew a steady drumbeat of new followers, many of them well-to-do merchants.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Small’s Pizza Connecticut native and longtime Austin restaurant veteran Kelsey Small found a space all to his own, moving his itinerant pop-up to the court at Springdale General.
—Matthew Odam, Austin American Statesman, 29 Dec. 2025
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Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 16 Jan. 2026
Weir’s friendship with the itinerant folk singer Ramblin’ Jack Elliott began in the early 1960s, and in the new millennium, Elliott and Weir frequently performed low-key shows together in Marin County, where both resided.
—Erin Osmon, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2026
The itinerant Friend’s spectacular style drew a steady drumbeat of new followers, many of them well-to-do merchants.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Small’s Pizza Connecticut native and longtime Austin restaurant veteran Kelsey Small found a space all to his own, moving his itinerant pop-up to the court at Springdale General.
—Matthew Odam, Austin American Statesman, 29 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for itinerant
Adjective
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Anthropocene framing conscripts the work into contemporary climate discourse, rendering its specific engagement with Kazakh nomadic destruction merely illustrative of broader ecological crisis.—
Anel Rakhimzhanova,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2026
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But these token acknowledgments feel oddly forced, particularly once Glass teams up with another nomadic sort whose world has been destroyed by the white man.—
Eric Kohn,
IndieWire,
25 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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New this season are nomad-style cooking workshops, starlit movies for younger campers, and sunrise hawk walks.—
Katharina Kotrba,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Itinerant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/itinerant. Accessed 5 Mar. 2026.
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