as in nomadic
traveling from place to place
a peripatetic reporter for a cable news network
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Gail Crowther takes us on tours of the places that shaped Parker’s peripatetic times in Hollywood, where stars gathered in a decadent community.
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Daniel Foster, National Review, 23 Jan. 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
Owing to the nature of his father’s job, Lynch experienced a peripatetic childhood as the family moved around among Idaho, Washington, Virginia, and North Carolina.
—News Desk, Artforum, 16 Jan. 2025
Kimberly Lovato is a freelance writer, author, traveler, Francophile, and champagne lover with a peripatetic soul.
—Kimberley Lovato, AFAR Media, 4 Feb. 2025
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Daniel Foster, National Review, 23 Jan. 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
Owing to the nature of his father’s job, Lynch experienced a peripatetic childhood as the family moved around among Idaho, Washington, Virginia, and North Carolina.
—News Desk, Artforum, 16 Jan. 2025
Kimberly Lovato is a freelance writer, author, traveler, Francophile, and champagne lover with a peripatetic soul.
—Kimberley Lovato, AFAR Media, 4 Feb. 2025
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