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transients

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Babylon 5 followed the diplomats, soldiers, and drifters aboard the station, built as neutral ground between humans and a handful of alien civilizations teetering on the edge of war.

— JP Mangalindan, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Aug. 2026
According to Rouse, the album grew out of observations gathered while traveling, with its songs populated by drifters, dreamers and fleeting encounters that blur the line between fiction and autobiography.

— SPIN Staff, SPIN, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of drifters

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Every autumn, as the bay freezes, hundreds of these bears gather around it before heading out across the ice, and thousands of tourists come to see them.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 6 Sep. 2026
Volcanic ash rose to 50,000 feet, drifting over Jakarta and western provinces, as authorities warned residents and tourists to stay two miles from the crater.

— Tatan Syuflana, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of tourists

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Across the planet, most populations of monarch butterflies—in Spain, in Hawaii—are likely descended from vagrants that veered off the Mexico migration path.

— Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026
In August, Denver fined GFI $140,000 for letting the building become a magnet for vandals, vagrants and urban explorers who trespass and post videos on TikTok.

— Thomas Gounley, Denver Post, 9 July 2026

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And yet, despite America’s best efforts, in the midst of this horror, millions of artists, travelers, and inventors created love, and light.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
But treating solo travelers as an audience rather than an accommodation is harder.

— Peter McGraw, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of travelers

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The former, in which Burnett and Hamilton did a song-and-dance routine as Dust Bowl-era hobos, marked the first of several times that the two performed together.

— Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
From oversized, slouchy hobos to structured East-West silhouettes and laptop-ready work totes, this season’s best suede bags deliver a luxurious polish that will elevate every fall wardrobe.

— Lauren Alexis Fisher, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025

Definition of hoboes

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Tourism officials are asking visitors to steer clear of one of Hawaii's most picturesque islands as residents and businesses work to recover from the latest tropical storm to thrash the state.

— GENE JOHNSON, Arkansas Online, 12 Sep. 2026
So many visitors get suckered into pasting and running the command that just about every malware pusher has adopted the technique.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of visitors

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By the 1980s, just a few years after the National Geographic story came out, the monarchs were already drawing streams of intrepid sightseers from abroad, despite almost no tourism infrastructure.

— Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026
The coverage of the latest chapter in the Reflecting Pool’s story has attracted news reporters and sightseers putting their hands in the murky waters.

— Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 June 2026

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