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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That sent Pickard on a nomadic trek across the minor leagues with cups of coffee in the NHL for the next six-plus seasons.
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Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 1 May 2025
One hypothesis as to how the fossils ended up there is that seasonal nomadic livestock herders traded meat and goods such as fossils with local inhabitants, in exchange for use of their land.
—Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 24 June 2025
Seed, who followed her parents’ career paths as a photographer, also discovered a trove of her mother’s own photographs, revealing a distinctive, clear-eyed aesthetic and a nomadic itch.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025
For centuries, this tick was an occasional nuisance to nomadic shepherds of the Middle East.
—Sean Lawrence, The Conversation, 18 June 2025
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Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 1 May 2025
One hypothesis as to how the fossils ended up there is that seasonal nomadic livestock herders traded meat and goods such as fossils with local inhabitants, in exchange for use of their land.
—Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 24 June 2025
Seed, who followed her parents’ career paths as a photographer, also discovered a trove of her mother’s own photographs, revealing a distinctive, clear-eyed aesthetic and a nomadic itch.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025
For centuries, this tick was an occasional nuisance to nomadic shepherds of the Middle East.
—Sean Lawrence, The Conversation, 18 June 2025
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“Nomadic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nomadic. Accessed 1 Aug. 2025.
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