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

Verb

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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This strange girl who wanders around alone in the middle of nowhere and then enters a house that belongs to gentle bears.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Aug. 2026
But the mystery train starts veering off the rails as Flowers wanders away from enjoyable rhinestone reinvention and defaults to the heavy-handed Springsteenian realism that’s sometimes been both his Rosetta stone and his Achilles’ heel.

— Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of wanders

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Directed by Kim Soo-hoon, the musical fantasy adventure follows Princess Romi, Heartsping, and their crew venturing into the deep sea to rescue Queen Velita.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 Aug. 2026
The move follows efforts by Pinterest and LinkedIn to respond to users’ frustrations with AI slop in their feeds.

— Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of follows

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The person, identified by authorities as Berezovska, then walks away, reaching into her pocket for a phone.

— Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026
In the 2013 movie, Joaquin Phoenix’s character, Theodore, walks around the city talking to Samantha, his AI companion, through a tiny earpiece.

— Joanna Stern, NBC news, 20 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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