as in wanderer
a person who roams about without a fixed route or destination
after college she became quite the nomad, backpacking through Europe with no particular destination
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as in nomadic
traveling from place to place
nomad caravans of Bedouins
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Recent Examples of nomad
Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2025
These friends, all Amazigh (Berber) nomads, have embarked on a musical voyage to celebrate their roots and share the richness of their heritage with the world.
—Jake Richardson, Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2025
Katharina Kotrba, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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Noun
But the nomads are moved by father and son’s plight, and by Luis’s gift of gasoline, a resource as scarce as water and food.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2025
These friends, all Amazigh (Berber) nomads, have embarked on a musical voyage to celebrate their roots and share the richness of their heritage with the world.
—Jake Richardson, Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
New this season are nomad-style cooking workshops, starlit movies for younger campers, and sunrise hawk walks.
—Katharina Kotrba, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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Noun
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Voice like a warm porchlight left on for wanderers who kissed goodbye too soon or stayed too long.—
Alex Abramovich,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
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Comets are famous for making brief, dramatic appearances in our skies, but one icy wanderer just received an unprecedented level of attention from one of NASA's newest spacecraft.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
5 Dec. 2025
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Both are on a mission, handing out flyers for Luis’ missing daughter, Mar, swallowed by the seemingly endless nomadic rave culture.—
Robert Lang,
Deadline,
7 Jan. 2026
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Mongolia This East Asian country, filled with remote untouched landscapes and one of the world’s last nomadic cultures, stands apart.—
Catherine Garcia,
TheWeek,
2 Jan. 2026
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Designed with mild compression (8-15 mmHg), these won’t feel as constricting as socks with higher support, which might be preferred by some travelers.—
Jillian Dara,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Jan. 2026
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Airlines canceled hundreds of flights, disrupting plans for thousands of travelers during a busy holiday weekend and in a region that experts say is among the most popular for travelers this time of year.—
Greg Iacurci,
CNBC,
10 Jan. 2026
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Not to mention the titular bugs, a swarm of blood-invading creatures discovered by her new lover, the mysterious drifter Peter Evans (Namir Smallwood).—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Jan. 2026
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Namir Smallwood stars opposite Coon as Peter, a paranoid former soldier and mysterious drifter who meets her character Agnes, a lonely waitress.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
8 Jan. 2026
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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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This interstellar vagabond presumably formed in a protoplanetary disk of gas and dust swirling around another star, the sites of active planet formation.—
Darryl Seligman,
Space.com,
15 Dec. 2025
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“Nomad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nomad. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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