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Recent Examples of Synonyms for straggled
Verb
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His military career began in 1917, when strayed onto a New Haven field at Yale University where members of the 102nd Infantry Division were training.—
Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
3 Apr. 2026 -
Loktev describes how that stigmatization was part of a Kremlin effort to discredit any reporters who strayed outside the party line.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
31 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The pair’s snow boots tramped the nearly week-old Kansas City snow, two candles clutched in their small hands.—
Caroline Zimmerman,
Kansas City Star,
30 Jan. 2026
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Virginia Woolf tramped along the Cornish coast; Oliver Sacks was known to swim; Haruki Murakami is an accomplished runner.—
Bonnie Tsui,
The Atlantic,
20 Jan. 2026
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“Straggled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/straggled. Accessed 9 Apr. 2026.
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