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rogue

[rohg] / roʊg /


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Watch the video above to see why these likely aren’t the last incidents of models going rogue.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

SAN FRANCISCO—An industry that loves its buzzwords has a new favorite and, like a rogue artificial-intelligence model, it has broken out of its sandbox and is colonizing new domains.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Hochman said the prosecution was meant to deter rogue police actions rather than silence whistleblowers.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said: "This surge in enforcement activity takes us to the highest level in British history. Illegal workers and rogue employers have nowhere to hide."

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

One Thursday in March, the circus had come through Humble, Nebraska, like a rogue spring wind, the kind that kicks pollen into the air and sends the shoots up too early.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

For years, these rogues dominated the president’s daily intelligence brief.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 25, 2026

Nancy Dunnachie, 65, the widow of a former Morton's Rolls employee tells BBC Scotland: "He kept going on about how they were a 'shower of rogues'."

From BBC Dec. 5, 2025

A member of Batman’s colorful rogues gallery, the criminal mastermind is always engaged in a deadly game with the Dark Knight, using riddles and witty wordplay to thwart him and authorities.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 21, 2023

The great number of their adventures has made them rogues.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2019

“I ought not to make too much of it, for pickpockets and rogues are a commonplace in London. We must stay on our toes, that is all.”

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

Chapman says, on reading these letters and hearing all the case, that he never heard of any man being more shamefully treated,—that I have been outrageously rogued and robbed throughout.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Edmund Downey

Does he think I will see Squire Rawdon rogued out of his home?

From The Man Between, an International Romance by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

I've rogued and I've ranged in my time, and The things that I learned from the yellow and black, They 'ave helped me a 'eap with the white.

From Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The practice enters into every hour of every-day life, and the greatest knave that ever rogued never cheated the world half as often as he cheated himself!

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever

You will recall that the off-type trees were rogued, leaving the parent trees of Nanking, Kuling and Meiling and others of good bearing habits.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952 by Northern Nut Growers Association

Potato roguing brings together people from all over the world It is essential to be fit to become a roguer, though it is also important to know what to look for.

From BBC Jun. 20, 2012

For Maciej, a former Aberdeen University student, an offer to go seed potato "roguing" turned out to be the right opportunity.

From BBC Jun. 20, 2012

The "roguing," as nursery-men call the destroying of varieties, which depart from their type, is a kind of selection.

From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin

These roguing thieves serve the great pirate Valdes; And they hav seized Marina.

From Pericles by William Shakespeare

The "roguing," as nurserymen call the destroying of varieties which depart from their type, is a kind of selection.

From Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology by Various




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