as in stroll
a relaxed journey on foot for exercise or pleasure
tourists on a morning saunter around the old section of the city
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as in to stroll
to travel by foot for exercise or pleasure
he lazily saunters about the French countryside, mostly photographing birds and flowers
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Recent Examples of saunter
Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 20 Mar. 2026
At one point, Mills paused to introduce me to some friends, and who should saunter over but Senator Angus King himself.
—Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2026
A couple of tech guys saunter onstage to help her out because this is, after all, the time to figure everything out.
—Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2026
So there sauntered Judge, one of the most stoic sluggers in a sport full of them.
—Chandler Rome, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
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Murphy snapped the shot just as the seraphic straggler picked his head up to get a sense of his bearings, then later sauntered back to rejoin his comrades.
—Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 20 Mar. 2026
At one point, Mills paused to introduce me to some friends, and who should saunter over but Senator Angus King himself.
—Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2026
A couple of tech guys saunter onstage to help her out because this is, after all, the time to figure everything out.
—Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2026
So there sauntered Judge, one of the most stoic sluggers in a sport full of them.
—Chandler Rome, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for saunter
Noun
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But a long-distance runner’s stride is fundamentally different from the gait of someone going for a stroll.—
Adam Kovac,
Scientific American,
27 Apr. 2026
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Our sidewalks are not the place for another obstruction to a pleasant stroll.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The back parking lot, once a nasty no man’s land where drunken customers wandered off to urinate, has recently been transformed into a performance space that has hosted small gigs including Duane Betts.—
Jimmy Jellinek,
SPIN,
27 Apr. 2026
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But, as Chen and Shrivastava wandered a Texas restaurant conference, a Dallas heating and air company called Rescue Air found them.—
Allie Garfinkle,
Fortune,
27 Apr. 2026
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Yandy Diaz led off with a walk, went to second on a ground out and scored on a two-out single by Vilade that ended Messick’s night.—
Marc Topkin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2026
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As the countryside springs to life with an abundance of edible plants, now is a great time to start keeping an eye out for ingredients on your next walk.—
Irenie Forshaw,
TheWeek,
27 Apr. 2026
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“Saunter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/saunter. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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