Thesaurus results for PERAMBULATES

perambulates

verb

present tense third-person singular of perambulate

as in traverses

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 strolls

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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Recent Examples of perambulates Meanwhile, Soames perambulates a park with Irene, examining works of art in progress. — Alice Burton, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2026

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Things to do 🧑‍🍳Famous chef Roy Choi traverses Los Angeles for lobster noodles and spicy tofu.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2026
The canal traverses the Isthmus of Suez, which is the sole land bridge between Africa and Asia.

— Scott Spires, Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of traverses

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Once the inventory crosses that hard threshold, the law explicitly prohibits these routine limited drawdowns.

— Siddharth Misra, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
Pluto fails at this because its orbit actually crosses Neptune's, and it's accompanied by other Kuiper belt objects in neighboring orbits.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of crosses

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In one extended sequence, Delaney just wanders his lonely apartment, the ghost of his wife already haunting the place.

— Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 28 Aug. 2026
Kennedy wanders across the country, picking up a recipe for pozolé de camarón in Jalisco, chuletas de puerco en agridulce (sweet-and-sour pork chops) in Morelia, and chilaquiles en salsa verde from her longtime home state of Michoacán.

— Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 25 Aug. 2026

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The 12-episode series – produced by Studio Dragon and released as a TVING original on CJ ENM‘s Korean streaming platform – follows Kang Seong-jae, played by Park Ji-hoon, a young man who joins the military to escape a difficult reality.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 Aug. 2026
White Pony ranks as the group’s second-longest-running effort with 40 frames somewhere on the tally, while Koi No Yokan follows with 15.

— Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of follows

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Edgewater defensive tackle Wes Hendry walks off the field with cramps.

— Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2026
Every year, more than 27,000 members of the Television Academy — actors and editors, showrunners and composers, the people who actually make television — sit down with their ballots and decide who walks away with an Emmy.

— Clayton Davis, Variety, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of walks

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Linebacker Weston Reis also came through for 2-0 Palos Verdes, which travels to Carson next Thursday in another challenging nonleague game.

— Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
The story follows Ana, a young Black French woman who, following the death of her grandmother, travels to her matriarch’s birth city of Belo Horizonte.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of travels

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Based on FactSet’s definition of second-quarter reporting, which covers companies with fiscal quarters ending in May, June, or July, Nvidia and Micron are projected to be the largest contributors to the S&P 500′s overall profit growth.

— , CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
The Netflix series covers the same timespan as A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, though presumably with less doo-wop.

— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026

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