stray

As we walk through the greenery, it is eerily quiet bar bird song and the mewing of hungry, stray cats.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Health officials are urging residents to take preventive measures by using flea control year-round on their pets and not feeding stray animals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Happy ending for stray pup that sparked wild tarmac chase.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

A stray helmet knocked it loose for a fumble.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

Some of the uranium 238 atoms will absorb a stray neutron and undergo a series of transformations to become plutonium 239.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

But Ms. Gammon never strays far from the mystery of Jutta and Lukas’s demise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

We were her strays, but for those hours each week, we became a small tribe bound by the sound of a ball against wood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026

For casual listeners, there are other signs: Inconsistent drum patterns, bland lyrics, and a singer who never strays from the melody or lets rip on the final chorus.

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026

Each 11-minute episode follows mundane escapades, like hosting a movie night or getting in a hot tub, punctuated by a somewhat disturbing art style and clumsy-on-purpose animation that strays into the uncanny valley.

From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2025

I maintained my private domain by welcoming the strays whenever my mom informed me of a new one.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

It was billed as a 20-minute address to Irish and Irish American business leaders, but was about twice that and strayed largely into domestic US matters.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

More recently, however, as cost-of-living concerns have risen for Singaporean voters, the government has strayed from that formula.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

On our way back down, an Australian tourist strayed from the path toward a tunnel entrance.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

Inflation has strayed above the Fed target for more than five years.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

But his back was on fire with pain, and Lazlo’s glance strayed there as though he knew it.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Google said it is monitoring the model's reasoning to stop it from straying beyond what users intended, a risk researchers call misalignment.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

American chip making giant Nvidia announced on Monday that it created a system designed to stop autonomous AI programs from straying beyond what they were instructed to do.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

Or again, this time straying further into Bridgerton territory, the narrator breaks the fourth wall to tease, “I know, dear Reader, that you are taken aback.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

The move had some customers questioning if the app was straying too far from its original purpose.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

The words “secluded” and “recluse” had begun straying into newspaper stories about him.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady