vagrant
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Mr. Martin walked the property later that day as police removed a vagrant from a building.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
He’s a vagrant by definition — a man with no job, no paper trail or online presence.
From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2024
“Where once it owned the continent, it’s now a kind of vagrant, occupying the botanical equivalent of homeless encampments.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
It is believed that the newly found greater mouse-eared bat was a vagrant that had crossed the channel from France, where there is an established population, and took up residence in Britain.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2023
The next morning, when I arrived at work in another jeans and sneakers ensemble, she seemed startled, as if some strange vagrant had made a wrong turn into the office.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
Mr. Pratt has recorded cute social-media videos with dogs, promising to overhaul the city’s dysfunctional shelter system and to require vagrants to get treatment for mental health illnesses and addictions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
"Romanians go to other countries for work, but we have so many resources here. Wood, grain - and our soil is very rich. Why should we be vagrants in Italy?"
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2024
The fish and wildlife agency said officers responded to reports of a man eating the protected species on the island, which is undeveloped and frequented by vagrants.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
Ceruti was tagged “Pitocchetto” — the little beggar — given his fondness for pictures of maidservants, peasant families and vagrants in tattered rags.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2023
It was a hundred and ten degrees, easy, and we must’ve looked like deep-fried vagrants, but everybody was too interested in the wild animals to pay us much attention.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
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