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
  • Odysseus travels to the underworld and has to perform a blood sacrifice.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 23 July 2026
  • The president travels to Georgia today, a swing state with a key Senate race and a toss-up gubernatorial contest.
    — Tamara Keith, NPR, 22 July 2026
Definition of travels
Verb
  • 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
  • Completed in 2010, the bridge traverses extensive agricultural land and urban areas, allowing trains to bypass road crossings while maintaining high operating speeds.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 14 July 2026
Definition of traverses
Verb
  • 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
  • None of them had heard of the Village People, which still tours in its latest incarnation, with a Willis lookalike on lead vocals.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2026
Definition of tours
Verb
  • Victims who were injured in the shooting described panic attacks, nightmares and the fear that still follows them into classrooms, neighborhoods and even their own bedrooms.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 27 July 2026
  • Whether the next crop of Republican candidates follows the clickbait commentators will tell us if this inversion is a Democratic or American affliction.
    — Aaron Kaplowitz, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 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
  • The problem is how rarely one of those women walks away with the trophy.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 24 July 2026
  • The form walks you through your eligible contributions and determine your applicable credit percentage to calculate your credit amount.
    — Miranda Marquit, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 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 29 Jul. 2026.

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