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
  • Based on Nobel Prize Winning novel, Growth of the Soil tells the story of Isak, a man without a past who crosses the mountains in search of somewhere to build a life.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 10 Nov. 2026
  • Weather prospects generally improve, too, as the path crosses the deserts of North Africa.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of crosses
Verb
  • If the Warriors can push the ball and turn this into a shooting game, their style travels well, even in a tough building.
    — OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 Nov. 2026
  • When an alarm or sensor on windows, doors and home security devices is triggered, the textbook-sized drone travels a preset path to investigate suspicious activity.
    — Annie Palmer, CNBC, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of travels
Verb
  • Astronomers have also discovered that M30, along with several other globular clusters, traverses the Milky Way in the opposite direction to the galaxy's rotation.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 11 Nov. 2026
  • In it, a young kid traverses New Orleans to fish, goes door to door selling his game, and learns how to drive, among other things.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of traverses
Verb
  • The Happy Devil is still around, but Labat tours solo these days, in and around a day job and coaching youth soccer.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2026
  • The odd man out is founding guitarist Rich Williams, who still tours occasionally but has health issues.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of tours
Verb
  • The story follows two middle-aged people revisiting a relationship from more than two decades earlier, exploring regret and the possibility of moving on.
    — Lin Ying-Hsuan, Variety, 8 Nov. 2026
  • For the Omaha Beach landing and the war that follows, Kaminski set out to make combat look like frontline footage rather than a Hollywood spectacle.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of follows
Verb
  • Carlos Manuel Vesga submitted the Pluribus episode where Manousos treks up through South America while accepting no help from the hive members, a showcase of defiant pride and a good bit of physically demanding work.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Definition of treks
Verb
  • Sam, who walks with a cane sometimes, is cool and dark and stylish, in an Anna Wintour mode.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2026
  • Whatever the weather, the sentinel walks a 63-foot mat in 21 steps, turns to face the tomb for 21 seconds, and begins again.
    — Lars Hanson, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of walks
Verb
  • Some oil shipments diverted around Africa face journeys up to a month longer.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Named after the Italian poet whose Divine Comedy journeys through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, the fall 1996 collection explored the intersection of religion, warfare, and historical mourning traditions.
    — Livia Caligor, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of journeys
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