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roving
adjective as in moving around
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Example Sentences
“Of course not. The FCC does not have a roving mandate to police speech in the name of the ‘public interest.’”
After suffering through a harrowing summer, L.A. was finally able to relax a bit when a judge blocked ICE’s method of “roving raids” all over the city.
According to Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, writing a concurrence in the Supreme Court’s emergency ruling allowing roving immigration raids in Los Angeles, any of these could be fair game, using law and “common sense.”
The city, he said, had been “overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people.”
District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong issued a temporary ban on “roving patrols” where agents nabbed people off Southern California streets based on their skin color, the language spoken, their vocation and where they are located.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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