vagrant
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He eventually moved toward sweeps of vagrant encampments “after our scholars had publicly argued for them.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
He plays Tom T. Shiftlet, a one-armed vagrant who talks a woman into taking him on as her handyman, then marries her mute, deaf daughter, Lucynell.
From New York Times • May 11, 2024
He’s a vagrant by definition — a man with no job, no paper trail or online presence.
From Salon • Jan. 20, 2024
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
While I was pondering the matter and staring up at the window from which the can had been hurled, an old vagrant approached the wagon and pleaded for a frankfurter.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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