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
As that happened, animal and plant populations shifted range or died out, and hunter-gatherer societies either became nomadic or clustered around remaining water sources and took up one or another form of sedentary agriculture, including the cultivation of the date palm.
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Jacob Jones, JSTOR Daily, 13 Aug. 2025
The people settling here were in for some major changes from formerly nomadic lifestyles.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Aug. 2025
In the Mongolian steppe, nomadic communities used satellite data to better allocate the size of their herds ahead of winter.
—Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 7 Aug. 2025
The organizers of Manifesta have announced that the seventeenth iteration of the nomadic biennial will take place in Coimbra, Portugal, in 2028.
—News Desk, Artforum, 5 Aug. 2025
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Jacob Jones, JSTOR Daily, 13 Aug. 2025
The people settling here were in for some major changes from formerly nomadic lifestyles.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Aug. 2025
In the Mongolian steppe, nomadic communities used satellite data to better allocate the size of their herds ahead of winter.
—Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 7 Aug. 2025
The organizers of Manifesta have announced that the seventeenth iteration of the nomadic biennial will take place in Coimbra, Portugal, in 2028.
—News Desk, Artforum, 5 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for nomadic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nomadic
nomad
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The latter will be used for the likes of Bitcoin developers or nomad Bitcoin enthusiast couples who come to Japan for an extended stay.—
Frank Corva,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Nomadic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nomadic. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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