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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As party members slowly trickled into the building Saturday morning, campaign volunteers wandered, handing out bags with posters for Marx or walking in slow arcs with signs for fellow chief executive hopeful Robert Moore.—
Seth Klamann,
Denver Post,
12 Apr. 2026 -
At Elmhurst, a resident in a Tufts University School of Medicine zip-up wandered out to see what was going on.—
Molly Fischer,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2026
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Neanderthals mostly lived in Europe, while more recent additions to the family, the Denisovans, roamed Asia.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
17 Apr. 2026
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Soon, Norton Tire outfitted most of the 20,000 cars that roamed the young city’s streets by the early 1930s.—
Howard Cohen,
Miami Herald,
15 Apr. 2026
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As the conversation drifted more into the realm of Davidon’s personal life and show business career, a publicist appeared on the Zoom and tried to steer things back to the brand.—
Maxwell Adler,
Vanity Fair,
16 Apr. 2026
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The recovery team waited for go-time in a small, inflatable boat as the capsule drifted down with the help of several sets of parachutes.—
Erika I. Ritchie,
Oc Register,
16 Apr. 2026
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Nearly half a million people strolled through the grounds last year, nearly double the number in 2015.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
14 Apr. 2026
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Once product characters strolled into the park in 1974, the floodgates opened.—
John Haddad,
The Conversation,
3 Apr. 2026
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“Gadded (about).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gadded%20%28about%29. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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