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
These descendants of Kazakh nomadic herders, who once moved freely across the steppe with their animals, now speak of staying put as a mark of strength rather than constraint.
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Magdalena Stawkowski, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2026
Fars released a video on Friday purporting to show nomadic Bakhtiari tribesmen, rifles in hand, searching for the American crew member in the mountains of Iran’s Khuzestan province.
—Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2026
Gratitude for having a place to close your eyes doesn’t erase the loneliness of nomadic living.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 3 Apr. 2026
Most of us are not nomadic by nature.
—Bill Gurley, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026
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Magdalena Stawkowski, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2026
Fars released a video on Friday purporting to show nomadic Bakhtiari tribesmen, rifles in hand, searching for the American crew member in the mountains of Iran’s Khuzestan province.
—Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2026
Gratitude for having a place to close your eyes doesn’t erase the loneliness of nomadic living.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 3 Apr. 2026
Most of us are not nomadic by nature.
—Bill Gurley, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nomadic
nomad
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Dinners take place in traditional nomad tents around the communal fire pit, and range from steaming hot pots with yak meat, mushrooms and tofu to haute-Tibetan tasting menus with wild vegetables in corn foam, tsampa grissini, and lamb shoulder with yak yogurt glaze and salsa verde.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Apr. 2026
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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 5 May. 2026.
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