vagabond
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Its stone fireplace comes to rest on what appear to be colossal boulders deposited by the last vagabond glacier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
A friend unexpectedly hosted a vagabond queen who birthed a litter in their place.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2024
But over the following years, purported sightings of Majorana multiplied: as a beggar in Naples, a monk in Calabria, and a vagabond in South America.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 20, 2023
He had PTSD, and he was a bit of a vagabond.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
Several months later saw the return of Francisco the Man, an ancient vagabond who was almost two hundred years old and who frequently passed through Macondo distributing songs that he composed himself.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Then we would have student-athletes instead of shopping vagabonds.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2025
"Today we were thrown out into the street - they made us vagabonds," Karapetyan told Armenia A1+, a partner of Reuters.
From Reuters ● Sep. 23, 2023
Obsessed with the search for home, he made music, whether with The Band or as a solo artist, that improvised a map for vagabonds without a precise set of directions.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2023
He said they were a "band of vagabonds" who were trying to escape from conventional regimental discipline.
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2022
He had the air of an aristocrat and as he turned to gaze at Blackberry from his great brown eyes, Hazel began to see himself as a ragged wanderer, leader of a gang of vagabonds.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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Vocabulary lists containing vagabond
"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 14–18
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