rogue
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ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Tuesday that its advanced artificial intelligence models had gone rogue during security testing, hacking into a popular platform for programmers on their own.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
Fighters from units designated by the U.S. as terrorist organizations aren’t supposed to be paid salaries, but in practice there is overlap between official militias and rogue groups.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Once inside, the T-cells destroy both the rogue and healthy B cells.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
The military has portrayed the soldiers as rogue elements who acted without orders from above.
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
“Great capture, Harry, really spectacular, your best yet, I’d say —” Through the thicket of legs around him, Harry spotted Fred and George Weasley, wrestling the rogue Bludger into a box.
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
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For years, these rogues dominated the president’s daily intelligence brief.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
“One of the peculiarities of squares is their screwy propensity to glorify rogues and scoundrels.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2024
When interviewed by the BBC years later, Stirling said he deliberately recruited brave and unconventional rogues.
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2022
The great number of their adventures has made them rogues.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019
“If that makes a judge of rogues, you ought to be a good’un.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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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 Downey, Edmund
“And we’ve had our fun,” he boasted, “and speaking of sweethearts and all,” he cribbed from Kipling, “‘We’ve rogued and we’ve ranged - ’” “‘In our time,’” Slim completed the crib for him.
From The Red One by London, Jack
Does he think I will see Squire Rawdon rogued out of his home?
From The Man Between, an International Romance by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
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 Lever, Charles James
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
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
The "roguing," as nurserymen call the destroying of varieties which depart from their type, is a kind of selection.
From Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology by Various
Control suggestions include roguing affected plants, eliminating weeds, and controlling carrying insects.
From The Tomato by Work, Paul
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
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