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roved

verb

past tense of rove

as in roamed

to move about from place to place aimlessly buffalo roving over the vast plains

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Recent Examples of roved As cameras roved around the stadium, women popped their booties, danced with friends and vied for a spot in an onstage twerk-off. — Jolene Almendarez, Cincinnati Enquirer, 20 Mar. 2026

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Coyotes, the true American canine, have roamed this continent for more than 2 million years and were venerated by many of those same Indigenous peoples who once made camp in Big Sky.

— Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 July 2026
The plant-eating giant, named Uragasaurus kalasinensis, is believed to have roamed what is now northeast Thailand around 130 million years ago.

— Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 13 July 2026

Definition of roamed

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But on a shady patch under a sprawling river birch, ten teens who had wandered over from Stuyvesant High School assemble themselves into breakout groups to discuss Zohran Mamdani’s recently released housing proposal.

— Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 13 July 2026
The three wandered downtown Culver City, seemingly unsure of where to go.

— Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026

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In a video that’s racking up millions of views online, a curious bear strolled up to a golf cart at Golden Eagle Golf Club in Pitt Meadows, British Columbia, helped itself to a player's golf bag, then casually dragged it away from the tee box.

— Lauren Paige Richeson, USA Today, 17 July 2026
Those Argentina fans strolled past the Monterey apartments on Wornall Road at the perfect time, because Susan Goldenberg was doing one of her weekly porch concerts.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 15 July 2026

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In the days before his Ford Bronco drifted into the path of an oncoming semi-truck, Matt Miller was settling debts.

— Alex Andrejev, New York Times, 17 July 2026
Microsoft tied itself tightly to OpenAI through a series of investments, but the two companies drifted and became competing with each other after the abrupt 2023 ousting and reinstatement of OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, with little notice to Nadella.

— Jordan Novet, CNBC, 16 July 2026

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