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nomadic

adjective

nō-ˈma-dik

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traveling from place to place raised in a nomadic family, she attended half a dozen different high schools

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Recent Examples of nomadic The military has also been stretched by efforts to combat armed gangs carrying out mass kidnappings for ransom, and fighting between semi-nomadic herdsmen and settled farmers in states across the center of the country. — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 5 Aug. 2026 Separate accounts from Siberia described nomadic herders using fly agaric in shamanic ceremonies, taking pains to prolong its psychoactive effects. — Kimon De Greef, Longreads, 4 Aug. 2026 Watts played Rose Mary Walls, the mother of a nomadic family living in poverty and squalor. — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Aug. 2026 From nomadic migrations to geek culture, many of the works seek to record and archive changing relations to place and community, not only in Doha but across the Gulf region. — Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 3 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for nomadic

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Dinners take place in traditional nomad tents around the communal fire pit, and range from steaming hot pots with yak meat, mushrooms and tofu to haute-Tibetan tasting menus with wild vegetables in corn foam, tsampa grissini, and lamb shoulder with yak yogurt glaze and salsa verde.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Apr. 2026
New this season are nomad-style cooking workshops, starlit movies for younger campers, and sunrise hawk walks.

— Katharina Kotrba, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025

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