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Recent Examples of Synonyms for straggled
Verb
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Some of that era’s optimism has since waned, as the prevailing conversation in hip-hop these days is a sense that the genre has strayed too far from its roots.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
21 Jan. 2026 -
Characters who strayed were guided back into alignment, not violently eliminated.—
Will Ripley,
CNN Money,
21 Jan. 2026
Verb
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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 3 Feb. 2026.
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