Thesaurus results for PERAMBULATED

perambulated

verb

past tense of perambulate

as in traversed

to make one's way through, across, or over we decided to lazily perambulate the entire length of the esplanade and enjoy the fresh air

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as in strolled

to travel by foot for exercise or pleasure long summer evenings spent perambulating up and down the tree-lined streets of the quaint village

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Concerns over driverless robotaxis, such as the Waymo vehicles that have traversed the Atlanta streets since last year, are also reasonable.

— Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 11 Oct. 2026
So while Waddington’s landscape looked like a static territory waiting to be traversed, the real landscape changes as cells develop.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026

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Another 24 new releases are lined up for the rest of the year; most of them originals (20) followed by new seasons (3) and a saga.

— Annika Pham, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
What followed was a difficult stretch, with works by Cy Twombly, George Condo, Alberto Giacometti, and Lucian Freud among those failing to find buyers.

— Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 14 Oct. 2026

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Five burros were killed and a driver was injured when a herd wandered onto the 215 Freeway in 2020.

— Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026
At one point, McLoughlin even snubbed Sylvester Stallone, another Kennedy Center Honoree who had wandered into the bar.

— Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2026

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The annual domestic box office crossed the $8 billion mark on Friday and is up over 19% from last year.

— Lindsey Bahr, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026
If the car or truck was rented in one state, set to return in another state and crossed into Mexico via a third, the coordination required between three state law enforcement agencies can make timely recovery of the vehicle even more complicated.

— Steve Fisher Special Correspondent Follow, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026

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Later in the inning, Dodgers reliever Alex Vesia walked in the tying run (credited to starter Tyler Glasnow for having initially loaded the bases).

— Greg Rosenstein, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026
Finklea and his friend Ira Williams, 70, were shot to death when someone walked up to Finklea’s car along Northwest 30th Avenue and fired more than a dozen shots.

— Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026

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