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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
roam .
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Examples
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When you leave the house, the call roams seamlessly back onto the operator's regular network.
House Calls 2009
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In the duke of Athol's seventy-mile forest, with scarce a tree save planted larches, the stag roams by thousands, but of course the game-laws interpose, as they did eight hundred years ago, between him and the (biped) hind.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various
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The underlying system is similar to that used when a phone "roams" on a different network abroad.
BBC News - Home 2010
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Some might say the kind of pothead humor that arises from his choice of mileu and protagonist sometimes descends to the level of Cheech and Chong, but this is arguably a necessary side effect of the aesthetic strategy Pynchon employs: the world in which Doc Sportello roams is comic precisely because of the perspective the dope-smoking detective provides.
February 2010 2010
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Some might say the kind of pothead humor that arises from his choice of mileu and protagonist sometimes descends to the level of Cheech and Chong, but this is arguably a necessary side effect of the aesthetic strategy Pynchon employs: the world in which Doc Sportello roams is comic precisely because of the perspective the dope-smoking detective provides.
Genre Fiction 2010
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It only roams for a few minutes and I loose all data services.
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I prefer GSM networks since I do travel a lot and need a phone that roams seamlessly.
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Julian finds that the more he roams the "solitary but social territory" of the streets, the more invisible he becomes.
Roaming on Urban Streets Sam Sacks 2011
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And then theres Miss Jacks real-life bull: Ventiscoa regal, hulking, jet-black beast who roams the land she owns with fiery impudence.
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Some might say the kind of pothead humor that arises from his choice of mileu and protagonist sometimes descends to the level of Cheech and Chong, but this is arguably a necessary side effect of the aesthetic strategy Pynchon employs: the world in which Doc Sportello roams is comic precisely because of the perspective the dope-smoking detective provides.
Comedy in Literature 2010
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