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View definitions for stray

stray

adjective as in abandoned, wandering

verb as in deviate, err

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Elle Edwards was sitting on a raised flower bed outside the Lighthouse pub in Wallasey Village, Wirral, on 24 December 2022, when she was struck by two stray sub-machine gun bullets.

From BBC

While some of President-elect Trump’s most vocal supporters both inside and outside the Senate had pushed Scott’s candidacy hard in the past week, the Senate stayed its course, selecting as McConnell’s successor the one who would stray the least from McConnell’s old-guard GOP.

From Slate

There’s so much character in the stray paint strokes, the blackened thighs.

The noises were no stray opossum or raccoon but a man — reportedly naked and, authorities said, living in the crawl space underneath the woman’s home.

A stray Matt Fagerson arm at the resulting line-out then led to another penalty, and Pollard made sure it was a seven-point game again.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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