peregrinates

verb

present tense third-person singular of peregrinate
1
as in crosses
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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2
as in travels
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for peregrinates
  1. crosses
  2. travels
  3. traverses
  4. tours
  5. follows
  6. treks
  7. walks
  8. journeys
Verb
  • Once a victim crosses a jurisdictional line, everything that happened on the other side of it too often gets lost in the nowhere land of bureaucracy and red tape.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026
  • The trail crosses Romania diagonally, running from the rural commune of Putna to the city of Drobeta-Turnu Severin.
    — Gloria Liu, Travel + Leisure, 20 July 2026
Definition of crosses
Verb
  • Culture travels further than any courier shipping Solar Buddies worldwide.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • Likewise, the biking route usually travels by the Columbine Mine near 12,600 feet in elevation south of Twin Lakes and organizers hope to keep that feature on the route.
    — Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 31 July 2026
Definition of travels
Verb
  • In your periphery to the left, a spacewalker traverses the exterior of the station.
    — Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 26 July 2026
  • The Golden State might be a West Coast utopia, but then Californians live on a fault line that traverses most of it.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2026
Definition of traverses
Verb
  • That myth — the adage that tours and festivals featuring all, or even primarily women, aren’t good business — has been around long before the days of Lilith Fair.
    — Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2026
  • When Christian tours the workroom after the teams have shopped at Mood, his reaction to Andriy’s team seems to align with Bobby’s.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 July 2026
Definition of tours
Verb
  • The new movie follows 28 years later, as Sally bakes cakes and avoids men, while Gilly attracts men named Chad on Tinder.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 2 Aug. 2026
  • This breathtaking start follows recent debate over potential fatigue for franchise films, including those of the superhero variety, given that DC Studios’ Supergirl underperformed earlier this summer.
    — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of follows
Verb
  • The jukebox musical is built from Keys’ catalogue of R&B and soul hits, a semi-autobiographical story that treks through her Manhattan upbringing.
    — David John Chávez, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
  • As announced by Alex Cora over the weekend, top Red Sox hitting prospect Franklin Arias will start at shortstop when the club treks up to Dunedin to face the Toronto Blue Jays.
    — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 2 Mar. 2026
Definition of treks
Verb
  • Griffin Conine and Heriberto Hernandez worked walks to open the frame before Marsee chased Senga with a two-run double to right.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Servey regularly walks his 13-year-old Yorkie Scruffy through Lemon Hill Park, but said those walks have changed since Fan Fest ended.
    — Eva Andersen, CBS News, 30 July 2026
Definition of walks
Verb
  • Season 2 of the show is already in production and will pick up where the first season left off as the family journeys toward their new home in Walnut Grove, Minn.
    — Mariah Alanskas, PEOPLE, 11 July 2026
  • One intrepid reporter journeys into the nondescript building where Hollywood’s biggest stars can be digitally cloned.
    — Joy Press, Vanity Fair, 6 July 2026
Definition of journeys
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“Peregrinates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peregrinates. Accessed 4 Aug. 2026.

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