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rogue

[rohg] / roʊg /


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Nor was this a case of a few rogue officials counteracting company policies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Instead of accepting the embrace of the Palace - and the media silence that involves - he happily went rogue, giving comments, sometimes commentary, to various media outlets.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Security breaches are a real problem, but they aren’t rogue AIs conspiring to do harm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Speaking at a press conference, Kanishka Narayan pointed to an incident of a rogue OpenAI agent hacking an Australian government website in June.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

When the arrests didn’t happen fast enough, the FBI went rogue.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Affecting a tough-guy realism, Mr. Bockino is contemptuous of antigambling officials in the era before legalization and tolerant of the worst rogues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Nancy Dunnachie, 65, the widow of a former Morton's Rolls employee tells BBC Scotland: "He kept going on about how they were a 'shower of rogues'."

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025

A member of Batman’s colorful rogues gallery, the criminal mastermind is always engaged in a deadly game with the Dark Knight, using riddles and witty wordplay to thwart him and authorities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2023

The reverence I had unwittingly infiltrated a culture of rogues & thieves posing as police.

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2023

“I ought not to make too much of it, for pickpockets and rogues are a commonplace in London. We must stay on our toes, that is all.”

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

“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 Jack London

Does he think I will see Squire Rawdon rogued out of his home?

From The Man Between, an International Romance by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

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 Edmund Downey

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 Charles James Lever

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

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

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

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

Sirrah, must I stand waiting your Leisure, while you are roguing here?

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Montague Summers

These roguing thieves serve the great pirate Valdes; And they hav seized Marina.

From Pericles by William Shakespeare


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