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rogue

[rohg] / roʊg /


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He labelled rogue bankers as "half-wits" and said the dams and flood dykes lining the Yangtze River were as "flimsy and porous as tofu dregs".

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

By now, you’ve seen the increasingly disturbing reports of rogue agents breaking out of their controlled test environments and into other companies.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 8, 2026

Hochman said the prosecution was meant to deter rogue police actions rather than silence whistleblowers.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

Plus: Explosive drone at German airport marks new threat for Europe, and Meta AI hacks add to concerns over rogue bots.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Not rogue comets, not black holes, not the heat death of the universe.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

For years, these rogues dominated the president’s daily intelligence brief.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 25, 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 great number of their adventures has made them rogues.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2019

“Those rogues were protecting their underhanded operation more than you,” Grandma huffed.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

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

“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

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

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

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

From Pericles by William Shakespeare




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