as in trespassed
to commit an offense
our straying son swears he's returned to the straight and narrow
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Recent Examples of strayed
Regulators are questioning whether OpenAI has strayed from its original public-benefit mission in favor of commercial growth—recent suicides linked to ChatGPT have also complicated the issue.
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Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
This is the furthest Supermassive Games has strayed from the cinematic and orchestrated vision that defined the last 10 years of the studio.
—Echo Apsey, Space.com, 9 Sep. 2025
The men had strayed about 1,000 feet off the trail, according to the New York Times.
—Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Bovino’s sense of mission never strayed from the Border Patrol’s roots.
—Elliot Spagat, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Romano, in fact, rarely strayed from her own experiences, relationships and memories for the subjects of her writing.
—Brian Robert Moore
september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
With this in mind, after a few albums that strayed from her roots, Price makes her return to a more country sound on Hard Headed Woman.
—Daniel Kohn, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2025
The Context Willett said a driver was turning onto a road, strayed from it and crashed into the building, rupturing a natural gas line—and left the scene in the vehicle before being found afterward.
—Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
Leaning against a wooden side table, Swift was pictured underneath a dark brown bob and micro bangs, a different look for the performer who has rarely strayed from her muddy blond coloring and below-the-shoulder length.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
This is the furthest Supermassive Games has strayed from the cinematic and orchestrated vision that defined the last 10 years of the studio.
—Echo Apsey, Space.com, 9 Sep. 2025
The men had strayed about 1,000 feet off the trail, according to the New York Times.
—Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Bovino’s sense of mission never strayed from the Border Patrol’s roots.
—Elliot Spagat, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Romano, in fact, rarely strayed from her own experiences, relationships and memories for the subjects of her writing.
—Brian Robert Moore
september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
With this in mind, after a few albums that strayed from her roots, Price makes her return to a more country sound on Hard Headed Woman.
—Daniel Kohn, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2025
The Context Willett said a driver was turning onto a road, strayed from it and crashed into the building, rupturing a natural gas line—and left the scene in the vehicle before being found afterward.
—Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
Leaning against a wooden side table, Swift was pictured underneath a dark brown bob and micro bangs, a different look for the performer who has rarely strayed from her muddy blond coloring and below-the-shoulder length.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for strayed
Verb
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An investigation revealed the suspect had trespassed and peered into a home through a glass door.—
Anne Gelhaus,
Mercury News,
5 Sep. 2025
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There were, after all, the men who trespassed, as if my young body was theirs to forage.—
R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Cal Fire’s newest proposal for Jackson, dubbed AMEX, targets nearly 500 acres with a patchwork of small clearcuts and is silent on tree sizes to be felled.—
John P. O’Brien,
Mercury News,
13 Sep. 2025
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Footage from the 1966 Italian documentary Africa Addio, of a herd of elephants being felled by both ground hunters and sharpshooters in helicopters, is distressing to watch.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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In Jacksonville, Florida, a 5-year-old wandered away from home in the early morning hours.—
Ronnie Li,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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Despite its common name, this creature wasn’t simply a lion that wandered into the Americas.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Strayed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strayed. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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