vagrant
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He eventually moved toward sweeps of vagrant encampments “after our scholars had publicly argued for them.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
He served four years, but on his release he had no family, friends or place to live, so he became a vagrant.
From BBC • Jun. 14, 2025
He plays Tom T. Shiftlet, a one-armed vagrant who talks a woman into taking him on as her handyman, then marries her mute, deaf daughter, Lucynell.
From New York Times • May 11, 2024
He’s a vagrant by definition — a man with no job, no paper trail or online presence.
From Salon • Jan. 20, 2024
The grocery opened at dawn and did not close until the last wandering vagrant dime had been spent or retired for the night.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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