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rove

verb as in wander

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She teaches herself to shoot and hunt, and even to cope with roving polar bears.

It’s unclear exactly how he was injured, but his lawyers say that Rovidio Marin had been at the car wash on Aug. 27, when immigration agents doing a “roving patrol” stormed in and raided it.

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In September, the Supreme Court temporarily lifted a lower-court order that had barred immigration agents in Los Angeles from “roving” patrols.

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For the next two hours, Stringer roved the room, pausing to sharpen pencils or praise participants’ designs.

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“Of course not. The FCC does not have a roving mandate to police speech in the name of the ‘public interest.’”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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