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vagabond

[vag-uh-bond] / ˈvæg əˌbɒnd /




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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

They’re defrocking the Mets down to their vagabond shoes that are longing to ... oh, forget it, one shouldn’t need to crib from a corny song to describe what is happening here.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 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

No one understood why, for no one knew his history, other than that he was a vagabond Kenyon had adopted years ago.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

Then we would have student-athletes instead of shopping vagabonds.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2025

Although the pizza-pilfering vagabonds — and a variety of other creatures — thrive in cities, for many wild animals urban environments are unappealing homes, covered in concrete and carved up by car traffic.

From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 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

“These three vagabonds are not Ashtons. Not Ashtons at all. They are the Incorrigibles, indeed—and that is what we shall call them, from now on.”

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood


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