Definition of "strays" [strays]

• Plural form of stray. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of stray. (verb)

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• "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."
• "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."
• "In the bottom were two men, strays from the fight, grappled together and still fighting."