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Recent Examples of walkabout
Kate Middleton makes her first royal appearance on a walkabout in Wales
As Princess Diana had done before her, Kate took a royal walkabout in Wales with her husband-to-be, completing her very first royal duty.
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Nicole Briese, People.com, 29 Apr. 2025
Both Charles and Diana stopped in front of her during a walkabout on that 1983 tour.
—Rachel Burchfield, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Prince Louis, who is set to turn seven this year and is a veteran of many palace balcony moments, had a shy turn during a recent walkabout.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
One fall day in 1856, a family of Eastern gray squirrels in rural New York uncurled from a cozy nest in a chestnut tree, looked around, and joined half a billion other squirrels on a multi-state walkabout.
—Christine Peterson, Vox, 23 Dec. 2024
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Nicole Briese, People.com, 29 Apr. 2025
Both Charles and Diana stopped in front of her during a walkabout on that 1983 tour.
—Rachel Burchfield, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Prince Louis, who is set to turn seven this year and is a veteran of many palace balcony moments, had a shy turn during a recent walkabout.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
One fall day in 1856, a family of Eastern gray squirrels in rural New York uncurled from a cozy nest in a chestnut tree, looked around, and joined half a billion other squirrels on a multi-state walkabout.
—Christine Peterson, Vox, 23 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for walkabout
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Nonetheless, Kishimori chose the United States as his first overseas trip at age 20 and then chose the United States as his first destination after joining the Japanese Foreign Service.—
Carol Cain,
Freep.com,
4 Oct. 2025
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Towns that were once pass-through spots for folks traveling between bigger cities—like Huntsville, Birmingham, Atlanta, Chattanooga, and Nashville—have become places to plan trips around.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
4 Oct. 2025
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Nathan Diller is a consumer travel reporter for USA TODAY based in Nashville.—
Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
7 Oct. 2025
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Sophie Friedman is a freelance travel and food writer based in New York and Marseille, France.—
Kristin Braswell,
AFAR Media,
7 Oct. 2025
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Swift’s 149-show, five-continent expedition encapsulated a tsunami of emotions not just among her fans, but her own journey through a very public breakup, a fling and, as indicated by her engagement to Kelce, knee-buckling love.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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That’s what brought Wiesmair, Spilker, and 41 other lepidopterists to the Italian Alps for the Project Psyche expedition this past July.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
2 Oct. 2025
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Endurance athlete Colin O'Brady, celebrated internationally in 2018 as the first person to traverse Antarctica solo and unassisted, is returning to the unforgiving continent for an even more arduous trek.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
2 Oct. 2025
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That offer only came to fruition when Hollub took a whirlwind trek to Omaha to see Warren Buffett and his Berkshire team.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 2025
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Apple TV+‘s French-language thriller series The Hunt has begun its march to launch.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
25 Sep. 2025
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What To Know The protest centres on a march through New York City at 12pm but will also take place in other cities.—
Kate Plummer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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What services will be affected by the price hike at USPS?—
Michelle Del Rey,
Louisville Courier Journal,
4 Oct. 2025
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That’s plenty of time to pick apples, hike under colorful canopies, snap photos in pumpkin patches, and indulge in every other fall favorite.—
Beth Luberecki,
USA Today,
4 Oct. 2025
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An icy traverse between Blanca and Little Bear Peak in Colorado forced them to camp out at 14,000 feet.—
Outside,
Outside,
25 Sep. 2025
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For three years in a row, researchers embarked on a two-week traverse of Antarctica.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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Help, of course, isn’t coming—not over the Indian Ocean, not in the nursing home, not on the tramps’ moonlit road.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
2 Oct. 2025
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Once per act, a second duo crashes in on Didi and Gogo, providing the tramps’ power balance with a lurid, distended foil.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Walkabout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/walkabout. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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