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noun

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Recent Examples of rogue
Adjective
Astronomers say the find opens the door for tracking down other rogue TDEs. Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 9 May 2025 There are too many rogue people interested in ruining the high school sports experience to help their own wallets or egos. Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2025
Noun
Harrison Ford forged an archetype: the skeptical rogue, a smirk king, He Who Shot First. Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2025 Those questions lead this rogue’s gallery of characters — whose frequent disagreements supply much of film’s clever humor — to join up with an audience favorite, the bearish Red Guardian (David Harbour, chewing up the part like a pro). Randy Myers, Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for rogue
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rogue
Adjective
  • The Act provides market players and investors additional mechanisms and avenues to seek redress and curb fraudulent digital asset activities.
    Abubakar Nur Khalil, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
  • The artificial intelligence PayPal uses to flag potentially fraudulent purchases can’t read your mind — at least, not yet.
    Christopher Elliott, King Features Syndicate, Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Frey was the Game of Thrones villain who orchestrated that show’s infamous Red Wedding, a premeditated and highly violent attack on a large group of people that took place during a wedding reception.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 13 May 2025
  • The filmmaker released a 15-second preview of the trailer, featuring footage of a battle between Superman and a mechanized villain named the Hammer of Boravia.
    Michileen Martin, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • The women screamed as the playful monkey swept in and struck his pose.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025
  • This is why she’s been able to hold the screen with Mullally and that monkey, by the way, the former playing her father Eli’s new romantic interest, Lori, and the latter as BJ’s new service animal after a fall from a stripper pole resulted in a spinal-cord injury.
    Brian Grubb, Vulture, 1 May 2025
Adjective
  • In the 1970s, information about the Tuskegee study – a deceptive and unethical 40-year study of untreated syphilis in Black men – came to light.
    Christine Coughlin, The Conversation, 9 May 2025
  • Anyone wanting to fight such usage would have to rely on deceptive practice laws, trademark and copyright protection, and state-specific laws protecting a person's name, image, and likeness.
    Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • Then comes the arrival of General Zod and his two primary compatriots – a warrior woman and a silent hulking brute – who do battle with Superman around the city, causing much destruction and threatening the life of Lois Lane and her Daily Planet coworkers.
    Mark Hughes, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • By the end of the episode, the audience is eager to meet the antihero, the brute, that everyone is talking about.
    Maelle Beauget-Uhl, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Local truffles are also on sale, not pungent but neither pricey and historically called devil’s mushroom by those who considered them as food for witches.
    Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
  • On her journey, Gerda makes friends with people, birds, beasts, and a kind witch, unaware that a hostile, unseen enemy – the Snow Queen and her devil apprentice, Louie – is watching her.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 7 May 2025
Adjective
  • In the new season’s third episode, Charlie helps Beatrix solve the murder of her husband Jeffrey (Richard Kind) by crooked FBI agent Danny (John Mulaney), and in return, Beatrix agrees to call off the hit.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2025
  • But that jubilation quickly turns into a night of violence when Coop is beaten within an inch of his life by two guys hired by a crooked art gallery owner who put overly aggressive moves on his partner in crime Elena (Aimee Carrero).
    Rosemary Rossi, Variety, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • Another one of Universal’s monsters features prominently in the Curse of the Werewolf spinning coaster.
    Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 May 2025
  • Dark Universe is where monsters from Universal’s classic horror films – like Frankenstein, Dracula and the Invisible Man – live on in the village of Darkmoor.
    Eve Chen, USA Today, 16 May 2025

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“Rogue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rogue. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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