rogue
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"It is often very difficult to tell quickly whether an AI incident was state-directed, a rogue actor or an accident," he said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Also this week, the government of Australia and a safety research lab reported on at least four previously unreported incidents at OpenAI in which agents went rogue and hacked into websites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
A rogue OpenAI agent has hacked an Australian government website, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
The attempted hacks join a growing list of incidents in which AI agents have gone rogue in pursuit of their goals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
“Great capture, Harry, really spectacular, your best yet, I’d say —” Through the thicket of legs around him, Harry spotted Fred and George Weasley, wrestling the rogue Bludger into a box.
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
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Affecting a tough-guy realism, Mr. Bockino is contemptuous of antigambling officials in the era before legalization and tolerant of the worst rogues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
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 reverence I had unwittingly infiltrated a culture of rogues & thieves posing as police.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2023
“Awfully interesting, more like it. What an inspiring collection of rogues I met in the clink! I’ve got enough material for twenty plays now.”
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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