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roving

1

[ roh-ving ]

adjective

  1. roaming or wandering.
  2. not assigned or restricted to any particular location, area, topic, etc.:

    a roving editor.

  3. not assigned to any particular diplomatic post but having a special mission:

    a roving ambassador.



roving

2

[ roh-ving ]

noun

  1. a soft strand of fiber that has been twisted, attenuated, and freed of foreign matter preparatory to its conversion into yarn.
  2. the final phase of carding, in which this is done.
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Other Word Forms

  • DZiԲ· adverb
  • DZiԲ·Ա noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of roving1

First recorded in 1590–1600; rove 1 + -ing 2

Origin of roving2

First recorded in 1785–95; rove 3 + -ing 1
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A roving, sumptuous narrative entrenched in the labyrinthine relationships of a small southern Italian town, “My Brilliant Friend” follows Lila and Elena, schoolgirls growing up in postwar Naples.

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Musk, whose band of roving nerd-assassins is conducting something like a large-scale Stalinist show trial of the entire federal bureaucracy, called Navarro a “moron” who was “dumber than a sack of bricks.”

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CBS has asked the Federal Communications Commission to end its investigation into edits of its “60 Minutes” Kamala Harris interview, arguing that the federal government risks becoming “a roving censor” trampling on free speech rights.

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“This is not some roving band running around doing things,” Bessent said, adding that the cost-cutting operation was “operational,” not “ideological.”

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For most of its existence, Al Qaeda was a roving band of jihadists that traveled from battlefield to battlefield, stretching from the Balkans to the Caucasus to South Asia.

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