as in wandered
to move about from place to place aimlessly
we knocked about from town to town, looking for work
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Shopping carts had wandered away from their stores.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
22 Feb. 2026 -
As elite cross-country skiers pushed to the finish in the women’s team sprint heats, a dog wandered onto the course and ran with athletes down the straightaway.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
18 Feb. 2026
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Two wolves roamed separately into the southern end of Colorado’s Front Range mountains in February, passing through watersheds west of Pueblo and Colorado Springs, a map released Wednesday by Colorado Parks and Wildlife shows.—
Elise Schmelzer,
Denver Post,
25 Feb. 2026
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On Sunday, cartel operatives roamed the streets with guns, hijacking cars, ordering passengers out and setting the vehicles ablaze, authorities said, part of a wave of retribution attacks.—
Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Feb. 2026
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As cruise line staff took her back to her room in the wheelchair, the woman drifted in and out of consciousness, the complaint said.—
Angie DiMichele,
Sun Sentinel,
25 Feb. 2026
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Billowing, acrid-smelling black clouds drifted over the turquoise waters of Banderas Bay.—
Mary Beth Sheridan,
CNN Money,
24 Feb. 2026
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In the early afternoon of a cool January day in 1976, someone who might have been one of those typical customers strolled into Dadeland’s Lane Bryant store.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
23 Feb. 2026
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None of the actors matched the couple’s vision for the character, until Chokachi strolled in.—
Itzel Luna,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2026
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“Knocked (about).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knocked%20%28about%29. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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