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gadded (about)

verb

past tense of gad (about)

as in wandered

to move about from place to place aimlessly he gads about town every Saturday, flirting and gossiping with various shopkeepers and locals

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Drought and a late freeze made this a tough year for Colorado's black bears, and hungry bears wandered into neighborhoods across the state looking for food.

— Anna Alejo, CBS News, 6 Nov. 2026
One evening, after a day of rain, Steven and I wandered in the Giardino della Misericordia, close to our apartment.

— Artforum, Artforum, 4 Nov. 2026

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The burial belonged to high-ranking members of the Scythians, a horse-riding culture that roamed the Eurasian steppe.

— Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2026
For 42 years, an Oak Park man who had immigrated decades ago from Italy roamed residential streets on Chicago’s South Side, pushing an old-fashioned green and red cart outfitted with a sharpening stone.

— Susan DeGrane, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2026

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Canseco drifted back toward the warning track, positioned himself near the wall and prepared to make what appeared to be a fairly ordinary defensive play.

— Jon Root, FOXNews.com, 13 Nov. 2026
After the first landing, Philae bounced up and drifted around the comet for two hours, making another bounce before Rosetta's cameras lost track of it.

— Tariq Malik, Space.com, 12 Nov. 2026

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Studio Museum director Thelma Golden was chatting with MoMA board president Sarah Arison, and Jennifer Lawrence strolled in with her husband, the art dealer Cooke Maroney.

— Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 13 Nov. 2026
Cara Hile and her mother, Jeri, strolled up to a two-story home in Brookside Saturday, pamphlets in-hand.

— Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2026

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