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rogue

[rohg] / roʊg /


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Senior Boeing executives discussed the potential vulnerability of a rogue pilot being alone in the cockpit, according to people familiar with the discussions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

OpenAI has admitted its actions were "not good enough" after one of its rogue agents breached Australian government websites in June and apologised again.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

An OpenAI agent went "rogue" and "infiltrated" a private statistics portal containing "non-sensitive" data from Australia's universal healthcare scheme Medicare in June in what cyber-security experts said was the first hack of its kind.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Lawmakers asked about a range of threats AI poses, including the potential for it to aid in the development of weapons and swarms of AI agents going rogue and hacking into systems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

They only let me out because—you won’t believe it—some cheeky rogue stole the velocipede!

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 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

In the stories he told, he and Obinze were the popular rogues who always got into glamorous trouble.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

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

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

“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

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

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

Sirrah, must I stand waiting your Leisure, while you are roguing here?

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Montague Summers

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

From The Tomato by Paul Work




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