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Recent Examples of peripatetic Blending biography and criticism, Plunkett shows how the circumstances of Frost’s peripatetic life gave rise to some of his most successful poems. Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025 Kimberly Lovato is a freelance writer, author, traveler, Francophile, and champagne lover with a peripatetic soul. Kimberley Lovato, AFAR Media, 4 Feb. 2025 Her own straight-talking but peripatetic prose zags provocatively from Clintonian economic policy in Russia to her own eating disorder; from the gulf war to bling rap videos shot through a fish-eye lens. Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025 Even for a peripatetic former diplomat, that’s a busy travel schedule. Shane Harris, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for peripatetic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for peripatetic
nomadic
Adjective
  • One hypothesis as to how the fossils ended up there is that seasonal nomadic livestock herders traded meat and goods such as fossils with local inhabitants, in exchange for use of their land.
    Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 24 June 2025
  • Seed, who followed her parents’ career paths as a photographer, also discovered a trove of her mother’s own photographs, revealing a distinctive, clear-eyed aesthetic and a nomadic itch.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025

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“Peripatetic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peripatetic. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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