stray
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Now they only stray south into Saudi Arabia, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
On March 25, another stray Ukrainian drone crashed in Latvia.
From Barron's • May 16, 2026
Both Latvia and Ukraine acknowledged that the drones may have been Ukrainian UAVs intended to target Russia whose signals had been jammed, leading them to stray into Latvia.
From BBC • May 14, 2026
Then do a quick sweep of your surfaces: crumbs, scraps, stray La Croix cans, to-go coffee cups, bits of plastic wrap or parchment.
From Salon • May 5, 2026
A sense of urgency pushed me faster and faster, and I barely registered the pain as my shins hit stray barrels and crates in the dark.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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