nightwalker

noun

Definition of nightwalkernext
as in night rider

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Recent Examples of nightwalker So a book detailing the existence of nightwalkers doesn’t exactly stop the presses. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 7 June 2026
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  1. night rider
  2. sleepwalker
Noun
  • April 18th is one of the most important dates in American history and marks the night riders warned fellow patriots that British troops were on the move.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 17 Apr. 2026
  • By the end of the school year, pretty much every item in the apparatus of Southern civil-rights resistance had made an appearance in Clinton, from anti-Black slurs and heckling to cross burnings, bombings, and Ku Klux Klan night riders.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
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  • This is getting a little bit into the weeds of it, but one of the changes was the storyline about Lowen being a sleepwalker in the book.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 23 Sep. 2026
  • He is said to have come out of the state much faster than any sleepwalker could ever do.
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2025
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“Nightwalker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nightwalker. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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