as in to stay
to reside as a temporary guest
began their retirement by leisurely sojourning with friends and relatives scattered across the country
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Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 12 July 2024
At 94, the compact and silver-haired Costas still works in his museum studio every day during his seasonal sojourns from Athens, painting six or seven hours to take advantage of the optimal light.
—Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2024
Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2023
The new study, published this week in Nature Communications, bolsters evidence that modern humans sojourned out of Africa more than once and traveled vast distances—although these precocious migrants likely didn’t contribute many, if any, genes to modern populations.
—Byscience News Staff, science.org, 15 June 2023
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Noun
And this fiber-rich culinary heritage survived 400 years of our sojourn here in the United States – through enslavement, Jim Crow, the Great Migration, and the Civil Rights and Black Liberation Movements.
—Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 12 July 2024
At 94, the compact and silver-haired Costas still works in his museum studio every day during his seasonal sojourns from Athens, painting six or seven hours to take advantage of the optimal light.
—Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2024
Verb
The group had sojourned to Badwater Basin, the park’s lowest point and the lowest point in North America, which sits 282 feet below sea level.
—Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2023
The new study, published this week in Nature Communications, bolsters evidence that modern humans sojourned out of Africa more than once and traveled vast distances—although these precocious migrants likely didn’t contribute many, if any, genes to modern populations.
—Byscience News Staff, science.org, 15 June 2023
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