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Recent Examples of walkabout
During the walkabout, William stopped for selfies, consoled a woman who appeared to have injured her hand and chatted with locals, sometimes with the help of a translator.
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Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
For a walkabout with the Princess of Wales at Frogmore House, the first lady chose a Ralph Lauren chestnut-colored suede safari jacket, Loro Piana pants, and chestnut-colored Roger Vivier flats.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2025
That promise begins with a gold-panning bowl with an etched map and continues when Molly and her friend Greta are joined in their walkabout by a Japanese pilot and then a baby.
—The Know, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
Today’s top stories Trump’s rhetorical walkabouts: A sign of ‘genius’ or cognitive decline?
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024
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Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
For a walkabout with the Princess of Wales at Frogmore House, the first lady chose a Ralph Lauren chestnut-colored suede safari jacket, Loro Piana pants, and chestnut-colored Roger Vivier flats.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2025
That promise begins with a gold-panning bowl with an etched map and continues when Molly and her friend Greta are joined in their walkabout by a Japanese pilot and then a baby.
—The Know, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
Today’s top stories Trump’s rhetorical walkabouts: A sign of ‘genius’ or cognitive decline?
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for walkabout
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Tibbs clubbed 28 home runs in his junior year at Florida State, powering the Seminoles to their first College World Series trip since 2019.—
Jack Vita,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Mar. 2026
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Mikala grew up taking annual family trips to Austin to visit her grandmother, an Austinite since 1975, and has fully adopted the Texas lifestyle since moving to the Lone Star State in 2018.—
Mikala Compton,
Austin American Statesman,
12 Mar. 2026
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In our roundup of travel news this week, why social bathhouses are a hot new wellness trend, the Portuguese chicken shop Chinese tourists are traveling thousands of miles to visit, plus travel chaos in the Middle East.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
7 Mar. 2026
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The man, Jonathan Gavalas, started using the chatbot in August 2025 to help write, plan travel and assist with shopping.—
Queenie Wong,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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With 66 potential new species from one expedition and hundreds of specimens still being analyzed, these findings underscore how much of the deep ocean remains unknown — and how much more there is left to discover.—
Ryan Brennan,
Miami Herald,
11 Mar. 2026
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The Nankai Trough is one of Japan’s most geologically active deep-sea regions, but before this expedition, only 14 animal species were known to inhabit the area’s cold seeps.—
Ryan Brennan,
Charlotte Observer,
11 Mar. 2026
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Deep snow should greet mushers along much of the 1,000-mile (1,610-kilometer) trek to the state’s western coast.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 Mar. 2026
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Popular trails include the two-day Shangarh to Pundrik Rishi Lake route and multiday treks like Neuli–Dhel or Gushaini–Rakhundi, which pass through mixed forests, blossoming village edges, and wide meadows.—
Alexandra Gillespie,
Outside,
6 Mar. 2026
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Folks of all ages will appreciate the nightly Sirenna ritual, which involves a musical march from the lobby down to the sand, where adults are served a local favorite alcoholic chocolate drink, and kids’ eyes will pop when a mermaid appears through the plexiglass window of the infinity pool.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Mar. 2026
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He was arrested in 2021 while urging Congress to protect voting rights, and led a march for criminal justice reform that same year.—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
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On the hike, Lukas Bell-Dereske, science coordinator/ecologist for the parks, led us past the log Hanson had crossed to an area that the map indicated would be in the torch zone.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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Madis Muller, a member of the European Central Bank's governing council, admitted that the probability of a rate hike has increased, according to a Bloomberg report on Tuesday.—
Hugh Leask,
CNBC,
12 Mar. 2026
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Around dusk, the two climbers attached mechanical ascenders to it and, hanging upside down like tree sloths, made the long, slow traverse to my platform.—
Robert Moor,
New Yorker,
2 Mar. 2026
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During the women's downhill event at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, the 41-year-old ski legend lost control over the opening traverse after cutting the line too tight.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Feb. 2026
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The scene inspired future comedy gags showing drifters and tramps losing their pants to dogs chasing them.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Jan. 2026
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Told in a lingua franca of philosophy and academic jargon, Lucky’s speech has something to do with the collapse of reason and logic, and the futility of human progress, which is ultimately what tramps Estragon (Reeves) and Vladimir (Winter) are up against, too.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
17 Dec. 2025
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“Walkabout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/walkabout. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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