as in nomad
traveling from place to place
raised in a nomadic family, she attended half a dozen different high schools
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Recent Examples of nomadic
This was all explained to me in the oasis town of Tighmert by Abderrahmane Laasel, who grew up in a nomadic family that once traveled hundreds of miles each year to find pasture.
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Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026
But these token acknowledgments feel oddly forced, particularly once Glass teams up with another nomadic sort whose world has been destroyed by the white man.
—Eric Kohn, IndieWire, 25 Feb. 2026
Over 2,500 years ago, researchers believe that a 25- to 30-year-old woman most likely fell off a horse, as the Pazyryk were a nomadic culture, and suffered terrible injury to her jaw, as the CT scans revealed.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 23 Feb. 2026
The ground floor of the two-story location will be the new permanent home of the nomadic Earl of Sandwich fast casual restaurant that has bounced around Downtown Disney over the past few years.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 23 Feb. 2026
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Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026
But these token acknowledgments feel oddly forced, particularly once Glass teams up with another nomadic sort whose world has been destroyed by the white man.
—Eric Kohn, IndieWire, 25 Feb. 2026
Over 2,500 years ago, researchers believe that a 25- to 30-year-old woman most likely fell off a horse, as the Pazyryk were a nomadic culture, and suffered terrible injury to her jaw, as the CT scans revealed.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 23 Feb. 2026
The ground floor of the two-story location will be the new permanent home of the nomadic Earl of Sandwich fast casual restaurant that has bounced around Downtown Disney over the past few years.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 23 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nomadic
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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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“Nomadic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nomadic. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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