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
Somehow, now that I had once crossed the threshold of this house, and once was brought face to face with its owners, I felt no longer outcast, vagrant, and disowned by the wide world.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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