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
As other bucket-list destination properties face waitlists of a year or more amid record levels of U.S. golf travel, the opening of Scarecrow has further grabbed the attention of itinerant golfers eager to experience a pure golf getaway in a uniquely picturesque region of the Pacific Northwest.
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Erik Matuszewski, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
One example is the popular itinerant preacher known as the Public Universal Friend.
—Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 21 July 2025
Or Rebecca Cox Jackson, the Shaker mystic, who left her husband and six children after a religious awakening, becoming an itinerant preacher and eventually the leader of her own sisterhood of Black Shakers.
—Ekow Eshun
july 11, Literary Hub, 11 July 2025
The challenge facing the king was that the French men already sent to settle parts of New France had mostly become itinerant fur traders.
—Ann Foster, JSTOR Daily, 9 July 2025
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Erik Matuszewski, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
One example is the popular itinerant preacher known as the Public Universal Friend.
—Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 21 July 2025
Or Rebecca Cox Jackson, the Shaker mystic, who left her husband and six children after a religious awakening, becoming an itinerant preacher and eventually the leader of her own sisterhood of Black Shakers.
—Ekow Eshun
july 11, Literary Hub, 11 July 2025
The challenge facing the king was that the French men already sent to settle parts of New France had mostly become itinerant fur traders.
—Ann Foster, JSTOR Daily, 9 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for itinerant
nomadic
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In reverse, it’s not lost on this viewer how the displacement of so many humans in this time of global disruption is humanity’s own version of being subject to the migratory patterns of storks and other nomadic animals.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
29 Aug. 2025
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As the country modernized, nomadic lifestyles were largely replaced with more settled, urbanized ways of living—so the symbolism woven into felting designs began to hold less significance in everyday life.—
Annie Daly,
Vogue,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Itinerant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/itinerant. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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