Thesaurus results for PEREGRINATE

peregrinate

verb

ˈper-ə-grə-ˌnāt

Definition of peregrinate

as in to traverse

to make one's way through, across, or over Jack Kerouac's celebrated novel about penniless free spirits peregrinating the United States

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as in to travel

to take a trip especially of some distance a couple of backpacking college students who decided to spend the summer peregrinating around Ireland

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Both Craig and Flanagan spent the weekend traversing the Twin Cities metro area.

— ABC News, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2026
The discovery will shed new light into just who was traversing these waters during that era, the culture ministry says.

— Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of traverse

Verb

For the next minute, the military-like fanfare travels from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, out across the airwaves of the world.

— Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026
And with another Formula One weekend approaching, bringing precisely the international, high-spending and well-travelled customer this property was designed to attract, that decision looks to be a winner.

— Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of travel

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Moves are afoot to try to bring the club back to the borough of Barnet and a site not far from their former home, Underhill, but, for now, fans must trek across the border into neighbouring Harrow.

— Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026
Decades later, screenwriters Todd Bartels and Lou Howe trekked to Provincetown, retracing the steps of the young man who would become a cultural icon and host of the celebrated shows Parts Unknown and No Reservations.

— Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of trek

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This follows a successful season 18 which delivered double-digit growth over the previous season and set a new franchise premiere viewership record.

— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 16 Aug. 2026
Two further extensions have since followed, the latest in January being an 18-month deal to take James to the end of the 2026-27 campaign.

— Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of follow

Verb

However, when her island's resources are threatened, Moana embraces her ancestors' voyaging heritage and heads out to sea to find Maui, deliver the heart of Te Fiti (which Maui stole back in the day) and save her people.

— Brian Truitt, USA Today, 9 July 2026
When a blight hits the island, the result of a curse that began when Maui stole a gem representing the heart of the goddess Te Fiti, Moana gets her quest and excuse to voyage — to find the missing Maui and force him to return the stone.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 8 July 2026

Definition of voyage

Verb

A bit geeky and has achieved great things in his career, but could probably walk down the street and not be recognised.

— Tim Spiers, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
In the Old City, Jewish men in black hats and tzitzit tassels, Muslim women in hijabs and Christian priests in flowing robes walk past each other daily in the maze of stone alleyways.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of walk

Verb

As humans prepare to return to the Moon and journey onward to Mars, even the simple act of swallowing could play a small but important role in whether those missions succeed.

— Sundeep Venkatesan, The Conversation, 3 Aug. 2026
In 1991, amidst the Balkan region’s dissolution and prompted by the unfolding events, 6-year-old Maja and her parents make the decision to journey from Yugoslavia to Denmark.

— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 3 Aug. 2026

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