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- verb Present participle of
stray .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective unable to find your way
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Examples
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How did you come up with the idea for Wandering Warrior, straying from the nonfiction genre of your other books?
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At one point, I began inventing bits of dialogue, straying from a strict representation of fact.
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But its College GameDay show, which each Saturday is staged from big-game sites, is straying from the playbook.
New NFL Network analyst Millen has no regrets about Lions tenure 2009
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Though family and financial considerations account for some of this trend, a large portion is simply a fear of straying from a typical "business" track.
Daniel Koh: Be the First to Stand Up Daniel Koh 2010
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Though family and financial considerations account for some of this trend, a large portion is simply a fear of straying from a typical "business" track.
Daniel Koh: Be the First to Stand Up Daniel Koh 2010
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For some reason, them straying from the books doesn't bother me as much as it usually does in other movies and such.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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This was intermittently very annoying, as you couldn't help straying from the words to the laughs, and Sissay also sometimes acted out lines (men walking "like they were pushing a wheelbarrow"), which is a but useless on radio.
Radio review: Why I Don't Hate White People Elisabeth Mahoney 2010
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Does Vitter realize that he is the poster child of Republicans straying from the their values?
Vitter defends Southern influence in GOP, slams Voinovich 2009
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It's Election Day and with the polls still open, pundits aplenty are predetermining the election outcome as a pack, with few free thinkers straying from the herd.
Christine Pelosi: Election Day Update From the Field: Don't Suppress Us With Your Punditry: Let Our People Vote! Christine Pelosi 2010
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Though family and financial considerations account for some of this trend, a large portion is simply a fear of straying from a typical "business" track.
Daniel Koh: Be the First to Stand Up Daniel Koh 2010
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