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strays - definition and meaning
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noun stray .verb stray .
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When one strays from the Noble Eightfold Path, you are the only one who can redeem yourself.
Think Progress » Fox News Televangelist Hume: Tiger Would Be ‘Farther Down The Road’ To ‘Forgiveness’ With Christianity 2010
Yet another male politician strays from the "sanctity of marriage" everyone is so quick to defend and yet another wife either stands dutifully by his side on tv or feels she has to explain herself and her accomplishments as if it's her fault.
Sanford's wife: He's earned a second chance 2009
"The emphasis never strays from the predictable or silly, but fans won't mind."
The Birthday Ball by Lois Lowry: Book summary 2010
When one strays from the Noble Eightfold Path, you are the only one who can redeem yourself.
Think Progress » Fox News Televangelist Hume: Tiger Would Be ‘Farther Down The Road’ To ‘Forgiveness’ With Christianity 2010
He and his longtime girlfriend, hairstylist Jen Kesler, started taking in strays : dogs, cats and friends who needed somewhere to rehearse music or a place to crash.
Riding the edge: For a moment, skaters, punk bands and artists had a secret place to call home. Melissa Bell 2010
This strays from the other stories in that Black Jack acts unselfishly at first, as a force to teach a needed lesson.
Black Jack Book 5 » Manga Worth Reading 2009
I'm far from convinced, then, about conservatism's intellectual credentials once it strays from the safe territory of utopias and revolutionary change, but Quinton's article is an excellent read.
Archive 2009-02-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
He and two Stanford colleagues analyzed the results of more than 6,500 congressional races between 1956 and 1996 and concluded that voters hold their legislators accountable for voting that strays from the district's ideological core.
Loyalty to Obama Costs Democrats Jonathan Weisman 2010
In the bottom were two men, strays from the fight, grappled together and still fighting.
CHAPTER IV 2010
Not every Obama bash that strays from the realm of strict factual argument is really some Navajo code-talk for keeping the black man down.
Unfunny = Racist 2009
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