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rogue

[rohg] / roʊg /


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I ask him about rogue waste removers and his advice for people wanting to get rid of waste.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Nor was this a case of a few rogue officials counteracting company policies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Instead of accepting the embrace of the Palace - and the media silence that involves - he happily went rogue, giving comments, sometimes commentary, to various media outlets.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Security breaches are a real problem, but they aren’t rogue AIs conspiring to do harm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

The manager of a local hotel came to fetch us armed with rifles and reported that he had been delayed by a herd of rogue elephants.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

No regulatory plan we’ve seen would do better against rogues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

The single star was painted in berry juice, as was the bear, which looked so porcine that Mexicans who were struggling to protect California from Yankee rogues mocked it as more pig than bear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 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

The great number of their adventures has made them rogues.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019

It featured a heroine in disguise, a perilous sea voyage, rogues and brigands, and deep forests in which to become lost, perhaps forever.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

“And we’ve had our fun,” he boasted, “and speaking of sweethearts and all,” he cribbed from Kipling, “‘We’ve rogued and we’ve ranged - ’” “‘In our time,’” Slim completed the crib for him.

From The Red One by Jack London

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

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

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

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

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

Control suggestions include roguing affected plants, eliminating weeds, and controlling carrying insects.

From The Tomato by Paul Work

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

From Pericles by William Shakespeare

Whether the disease can be kept under control by repeated roguing is uncertain.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 by Northern Nut Growers Association


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