as in bum
a homeless wanderer who may beg or steal for a living
sundowners showing up at a sheep station looking for work
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Recent Examples of sundowner
What really gives the property energy is the way that it’s become a fixture for the local community, with families walking dogs, roller-skating down the boardwalk, commissioning sandcastles to mark anniversaries, or settling onto the hotel’s grand lawns for sundowners with a soccer ball.
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Bloomberg, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
Outings are typically about three hours long, with a coffee or sundowner break in the middle.
—Heather Richardson, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2025
Evenings ended with sundowners by the bonfire pit.
—Chris Schalkx, Vogue, 30 Sep. 2025
Enjoy the rooftop bar’s views over the foothills nearby with a sundowner or two.
—Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 8 May 2025
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Bloomberg, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
Outings are typically about three hours long, with a coffee or sundowner break in the middle.
—Heather Richardson, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2025
Evenings ended with sundowners by the bonfire pit.
—Chris Schalkx, Vogue, 30 Sep. 2025
Enjoy the rooftop bar’s views over the foothills nearby with a sundowner or two.
—Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 8 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sundowner
Noun
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As older leaders retire, the days of bums on seats five days a week are likely to fade with them.—
Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune,
17 Feb. 2026
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Here, in the rugged, remote Santa Cruz Mountains, one of California’s coastal ranges, the counterculture had found one of its first bucolic, dharma-bum milieus.—
Scott Eden,
Rolling Stone,
1 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Hollywood turned him into a beggar.—
Lili Anolik,
Vanity Fair,
12 Jan. 2026
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In the old days beggars were drawn and quartered in that square.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Head over to Quince to order the designer lookalike hobo bag, or keep scrolling to shop more luxurious handbags from the brand.—
Megan Schaltegger,
InStyle,
21 Feb. 2026
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The hobo bag has been popular with several brands over the past few seasons.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Glamour,
7 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The scene inspired future comedy gags showing drifters and tramps losing their pants to dogs chasing them.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Jan. 2026
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Told in a lingua franca of philosophy and academic jargon, Lucky’s speech has something to do with the collapse of reason and logic, and the futility of human progress, which is ultimately what tramps Estragon (Reeves) and Vladimir (Winter) are up against, too.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
17 Dec. 2025
Noun
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What emerged, Jackson told the court Thursday, was the portrait of a transient and calculating offender who operated across multiple states and evaded law enforcement for years.—
Austin Sanders,
Austin American Statesman,
21 Feb. 2026
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The researchers also found that the stage, although transient, is highly controllable.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Long the purview of vagabond surfers, its coastline is peppered with small towns, like Venao, Guanico, and Cambutal, that are in various stages of being reshaped by bohemian expats.—
David Amsden,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 Dec. 2025
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There are no talking-head interviews putting addiction into a moral context, nor are there romanticized vagabonds.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 Dec. 2025
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But in the wake of the fire and regular break-ins by vagrants, the city’s Landmark Preservation Commission approved demolition on account of economic hardship in December 2024.—
Thomas Gounley,
Denver Post,
23 Jan. 2026
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Sadly, the reason bus shelters are disappearing is that the city does not wish to provide seating for homeless people or other kinds of vagrants who may congregate there.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
3 Jan. 2026
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“Sundowner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sundowner. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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