as in to roam
to move about from place to place aimlessly
buffalo roving over the vast plains
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Recent Examples of rove
And Wang plays with his audience’s perceptions of what is actually going on in and around the pair with the aid of ambitious stylistic flourishes that include roving cameras, split screens, and an ongoing dance between what’s real and what’s imagined.
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Mathew Scott, HollywoodReporter, 13 June 2025
The camera moves, shooting her from this angle and that, and occasionally roving over various covers of Christie’s books.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2025
Don’t miss roving street musicians playing diatonic accordions and shaking panderos (tambourines) to perform trikitixa music.
—Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 8 May 2025
Like its unwholesome protagonist, the film — and the roving camera of Vladislav Opelyants, shooting in gorgeously high-contrast black-and-white — is forever on the move, creating an immersive aesthetic experience that amounts to a big pile of nothing.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2025
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Mathew Scott, HollywoodReporter, 13 June 2025
The camera moves, shooting her from this angle and that, and occasionally roving over various covers of Christie’s books.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2025
Don’t miss roving street musicians playing diatonic accordions and shaking panderos (tambourines) to perform trikitixa music.
—Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 8 May 2025
Like its unwholesome protagonist, the film — and the roving camera of Vladislav Opelyants, shooting in gorgeously high-contrast black-and-white — is forever on the move, creating an immersive aesthetic experience that amounts to a big pile of nothing.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rove
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Such broad, open spaces were essential to the origins of the giant sloths, and so creating wide-open spaces helps spur the evolution of giants to roam such environments.—
Riley Black,
Smithsonian Magazine,
11 July 2025
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Dobson’s a mobile skater who can roam around the offensive zone to extend the cycle.—
Shayna Goldman,
New York Times,
10 July 2025
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The shelter added that Captain ended up at Bentonville after a woman found the dog wandering near a road while traveling in Missouri.—
Moná Thomas,
People.com,
5 July 2025
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Partygoers wandered the streets, drinks in hand, wearing Scrim costumes made from furry onesies.—
David W. Brown,
New Yorker,
5 July 2025
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Meanwhile, much of the Upper Midwest on Saturday was dealing with swaths of unhealthy air because of drifting smoke from Canadian wildfire.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
12 July 2025
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After drifting to the sidelines in last week’s Snatch Game, this is exactly where Bosco needed to land this week.—
Chris Feil,
Vulture,
11 July 2025
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“Rove.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rove. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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