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"ref": "1895, John Alexander Harvie-Brown, Thomas E. Buckley, A Fauna of the Moray Basin - Volume 2, page 156",
"text": "There is scarcely any doubt, however, that a few do breed in the Carn districts, and that they vagrate out to surrounding hills.",
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"ref": "1940, The Entomologist; Volumes 73-75, page 205",
"text": "A moth that is possessed by the instinct to migrate (which is the wrong word; moths do not \"migrate\" as the zoologist knows migration; they \"vagrate\"), soars almost as soon as its wings are dry; the very first flight that it makes is the flight that carries it across the sea.",
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"ref": "1953, İstanbul Üniversitesi Fen Fakültesi Mecmuası",
"text": "The neonate larvae appear from mid-June to early July and vagrate to the leaves, where they settle, preferably on the lower side.",
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"ref": "2006, Laurence Charles Binford, Birds of the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, page 220",
"text": "Most western vagrants involve species that frequently vagrate to the East; the only exceptions are all from the Southwest: Broad-billed Hummingbird, Tropical/ Couch's Kingbird, and Cassin's Sparrow (DeSante & Pyle, 1986).",
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"To wander randomly before settling in a new place to live."
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"(zoology) To wander randomly before settling in a new place to live."
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"ref": "1967, Annals of the Náprstek Museum - Volumes 3-6, page 165",
"text": "Sometimes one can hear long epic songs, sung in the past perhaps by songsters, who at present are not allowed to vagrate freely.",
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"ref": "1968, Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers: Slave Trade, page 29",
"text": "As far as you have observed the free people of colour, have they been disposed to vagrate, except for the purpose of procuring more profitable employment?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Silvio Canale, The Myth of Motivation: A Journey of Self Discovery, page 235",
"text": "Breathing is the bridge between the body and mind; it anchors the mind; it doesn't allow it to vagrate or to wander.",
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"To wander freely with no destination."
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"ref": "1835, The Westminster Review - Volume 23, page 194",
"text": "Among these Kings occurs the renowned name of Ollamh Fodhla, as to the period of whose existence the fabulous historians have vagrated between 1300 and 600 years before Christ.",
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"ref": "1956, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Proceedings: Physical sciences. Series B - Volume 59, page 76",
"text": "The large spread of these potentials, however, seems to indicate that potentials in the dilute solutions of this series somehow vagrate within a fairly wide range.",
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"To vary."
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"ref": "1895, John Alexander Harvie-Brown, Thomas E. Buckley, A Fauna of the Moray Basin - Volume 2, page 156",
"text": "There is scarcely any doubt, however, that a few do breed in the Carn districts, and that they vagrate out to surrounding hills.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1940, The Entomologist; Volumes 73-75, page 205",
"text": "A moth that is possessed by the instinct to migrate (which is the wrong word; moths do not \"migrate\" as the zoologist knows migration; they \"vagrate\"), soars almost as soon as its wings are dry; the very first flight that it makes is the flight that carries it across the sea.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1953, İstanbul Üniversitesi Fen Fakültesi Mecmuası",
"text": "The neonate larvae appear from mid-June to early July and vagrate to the leaves, where they settle, preferably on the lower side.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Laurence Charles Binford, Birds of the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, page 220",
"text": "Most western vagrants involve species that frequently vagrate to the East; the only exceptions are all from the Southwest: Broad-billed Hummingbird, Tropical/ Couch's Kingbird, and Cassin's Sparrow (DeSante & Pyle, 1986).",
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}
],
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],
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"(zoology) To wander randomly before settling in a new place to live."
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1968, Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers: Slave Trade, page 29",
"text": "As far as you have observed the free people of colour, have they been disposed to vagrate, except for the purpose of procuring more profitable employment?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Silvio Canale, The Myth of Motivation: A Journey of Self Discovery, page 235",
"text": "Breathing is the bridge between the body and mind; it anchors the mind; it doesn't allow it to vagrate or to wander.",
"type": "quotation"
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"To wander freely with no destination."
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1956, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Proceedings: Physical sciences. Series B - Volume 59, page 76",
"text": "The large spread of these potentials, however, seems to indicate that potentials in the dilute solutions of this series somehow vagrate within a fairly wide range.",
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}
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