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roam

[rohm] / roʊm /


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Photos of the enclosure on the park's website shows a high walkway for visitors and fencing above the section where the tigers can roam.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

For students at UC Riverside, the start of fall semester means picking up their class syllabus, catching up with friends and snapping selfies with the adorable wild donkeys that roam around the school.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

The pictures in this uneven but often striking show at the Yale Center for British Art roam from the 19th-century English countryside to British India to modern London.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

But I thought: 'Come on, Hanny, don't be ridiculous, of course it's not him, Chris Martin doesn't roam the streets of London.'

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

After Uranus it will plunge on past Neptune, leaving the solar system, becoming an interstellar spacecraft, fated to roam forever the great ocean between the stars.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

To the sound of a fog horn, she roams through Alma’s quarters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

It roams from the sidewalk to the soul.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Until then, Promise's goat will continue enjoying special status at the student halls where he roams freely and even has some human-like habits.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

He delights in tall tales of a Barbary lion that has escaped Northern Africa and now roams the streets of Paris.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2025

His gaze roams the space until it lands on a youngish, bearded black man in a dashiki shirt and kufi hat.

From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone

About the size of a large tiger and armed with enormous curved claws, the animal roamed what is now Britain approximately 120 million years ago.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

When Amy Potter was growing up, she roamed free in rural Australia and jumped off a shed onto her trampoline until it had a hole in it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

On a summer morning before the heat set in, he pointed out the spot where his flock of over a dozen birds once roamed, strutting across the sand like remnants of the Jurassic era.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Researchers have found a trove of dinosaur fossils across the region, which holds the country's richest deposits, offering insight into the creatures that roamed the planet millions of years ago.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

In November, he paid eighteen pence to a Uruguayan farmer for a piece of a colossal skull of yet another extinct mammal—the rhinolike Toxodon, with giant squirrel teeth—that had once roamed the plains.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

NASA's Perseverance rover, which has been roaming across Mars since 2021, has already collected samples.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

Now he logs 30,000 steps a day roaming the halls of a million-square-foot data center in the Virginia suburbs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

To go somewhere and have your entire family dressed in Spider-Man regalia, roaming the streets of San Diego.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

As demanding as his roaming role is, he has taken the physical demands of it in his stride.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

“It’s the only forest around here with caves, and I’m pretty sure the Nightbeast is currently hibernating. Otherwise, it would be roaming around freely and eating witches.”

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega


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