as in birds of passage
a person who roams about without a fixed route or destination
the book is one writer's journey of self-discovery as a restless knockabout
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Noun
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Increasingly erratic precipitation since the 1980s has forced many nomads to come in from the desert.—
Kevin West,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Mar. 2026 -
Another camp speculates that these forebears met human nomads on the trail of big game and started traveling with them, eventually arriving in China via Mongolia through their supporting role as war dogs.—
Andrew Norman Wilson,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
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Voice like a warm porchlight left on for wanderers who kissed goodbye too soon or stayed too long.—
Alex Suskind,
Pitchfork,
18 Mar. 2026
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These ancient wanderers, like comet 3I/ATLAS, are cosmic time capsules.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
9 Feb. 2026
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There is, however, something else travelers should expect.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2026
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Floating alone where the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans meet, this island nation was long considered too out-of-the-way for travelers … until airlines like Icelandair started luring Americans with cheap flights to Europe that included a stopover in Iceland.—
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
1 Apr. 2026
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“Knockabouts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knockabouts. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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