vagabond
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A friend unexpectedly hosted a vagabond queen who birthed a litter in their place.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2024
The song’s lyrics, hinged on the image of a humble rural hunter “just trying to survive,” double as an analog for Ferrell’s journey to date, from West Virginia vagabond to Americana queen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2024
It was a Monday afternoon when two Detroit police officers were flagged down by Rudolph Henderson, a 43-year-old vagabond.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
But over the following years, purported sightings of Majorana multiplied: as a beggar in Naples, a monk in Calabria, and a vagabond in South America.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 20, 2023
There was another kind of object in the sky, the wandering or vagabond stars called planets.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Then we would have student-athletes instead of shopping vagabonds.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2025
He said they were a "band of vagabonds" who were trying to escape from conventional regimental discipline.
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2022
The chapter continues: "Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places."
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2022
"I joined our tribe of rogues and vagabonds a long time ago," said Mirren.
From Reuters ● Feb. 28, 2022
To cock it on his head and expect vagabonds and cutthroats to fall to their knees?
From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman
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Vocabulary lists containing vagabond
"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 14–18
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Bless Me, Ultima
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Tolkien Reading Day, List 1
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