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Health officials are urging residents to take preventive measures by using flea control year-round on their pets and not feeding stray animals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Happy ending for stray pup that sparked wild tarmac chase.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

If researchers tried to perform the experiment with a charged particle, stray electromagnetic fields could overwhelm the gravitational effect they are attempting to detect.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

Even a stray grain or hairline defect means the part has to be scrapped, he added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

But he couldn’t let the two mean dogs rough up a weak old stray who looked like he might not even have any teeth.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

Most kittens and cats brought to the shelter are strays, or so-called community cats without clear owners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Mr. James has compiled his own self-help manifesto, one that strays into platitudes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026

For casual listeners, there are other signs: Inconsistent drum patterns, bland lyrics, and a singer who never strays from the melody or lets rip on the final chorus.

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026

Each 11-minute episode follows mundane escapades, like hosting a movie night or getting in a hot tub, punctuated by a somewhat disturbing art style and clumsy-on-purpose animation that strays into the uncanny valley.

From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2025

She sat on the sofa and watched Hank retrieve the strays.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

It was billed as a 20-minute address to Irish and Irish American business leaders, but was about twice that and strayed largely into domestic US matters.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

More recently, however, as cost-of-living concerns have risen for Singaporean voters, the government has strayed from that formula.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

On our way back down, an Australian tourist strayed from the path toward a tunnel entrance.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

Instead, it strayed off course and eventually reached its final resting place on the moon’s surface.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

Miss Lilian’s hands strayed from her pearls to her hair and then to her dress, smoothing, twitching, tweaking, never still.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn

"Parents and grandparents prayed their children would have hearts like the White Arrow, never straying from the proper path," says Elfrida Natkime, a young Amungme woman.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

“Our library-based book club talked about it for a solid 90 minutes without straying from what the book itself had to offer its readers.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Or again, this time straying further into Bridgerton territory, the narrator breaks the fourth wall to tease, “I know, dear Reader, that you are taken aback.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

The Treasury market has been quiet lately, with 10-year debt barely straying from a yield of 4.3% in April.

From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026

Gus stood at the table, toying with a cue stick, his eyes straying lazily over the billiard balls scattered about the table in the array of an unfinished game.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright