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Recent Examples of Synonyms for straggling
straying
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Kuhr spung the dial on third down without ever straying too far from his blitz package.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
20 Jan. 2026 -
The model has captioned her Instagram photos in multiple languages, bouncing back and forth between them and occasionally straying into other languages that aren’t listed on her résumé.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
16 Jan. 2026
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“Straggling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/straggling. Accessed 23 Jan. 2026.
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