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Zhu, meanwhile, once labelled rogue bankers as "half-wits" and described the flood dykes lining the Yangtze River as "flimsy and porous as tofu dregs".

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Ulf’s decision to go rogue was certainly satisfying to anyone who has felt underappreciated by their boss, but he’s hardly Frodo saving Middle-earth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

Burnham said "the rise of vape shops, betting shops and rogue operators have replaced the shops, services, and community spaces that people are crying out for".

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

By now, you’ve seen the increasingly disturbing reports of rogue agents breaking out of their controlled test environments and into other companies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

‘Let’s see what sort of sedition this rogue is bringing in among His Majesty’s loyal troops.’

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

Affecting a tough-guy realism, Mr. Bockino is contemptuous of antigambling officials in the era before legalization and tolerant of the worst rogues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Nancy Dunnachie, 65, the widow of a former Morton's Rolls employee tells BBC Scotland: "He kept going on about how they were a 'shower of rogues'."

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025

A member of Batman’s colorful rogues gallery, the criminal mastermind is always engaged in a deadly game with the Dark Knight, using riddles and witty wordplay to thwart him and authorities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2023

The reverence I had unwittingly infiltrated a culture of rogues & thieves posing as police.

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2023

A prince would make a fine catch for these rogues.

From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman

The practice enters into every hour of every-day life, and the greatest knave that ever rogued never cheated the world half as often as he cheated himself!

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever

Chapman says, on reading these letters and hearing all the case, that he never heard of any man being more shamefully treated,—that I have been outrageously rogued and robbed throughout.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Edmund Downey

You will recall that the off-type trees were rogued, leaving the parent trees of Nanking, Kuling and Meiling and others of good bearing habits.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952 by Northern Nut Growers Association

I've rogued and I've ranged in my time, and The things that I learned from the yellow and black, They 'ave helped me a 'eap with the white.

From Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Does he think I will see Squire Rawdon rogued out of his home?

From The Man Between, an International Romance by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

Potato roguing brings together people from all over the world It is essential to be fit to become a roguer, though it is also important to know what to look for.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2012

For Maciej, a former Aberdeen University student, an offer to go seed potato "roguing" turned out to be the right opportunity.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2012

Whether the disease can be kept under control by repeated roguing is uncertain.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 by Northern Nut Growers Association

Sirrah, must I stand waiting your Leisure, while you are roguing here?

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Montague Summers

Control suggestions include roguing affected plants, eliminating weeds, and controlling carrying insects.

From The Tomato by Paul Work