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  • noun Plural form of rover.

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Examples

  • On the east side of the valley, three majestic peaks of naked rock, rise far above the rest, and are well known to mountain rovers by the name of The Trois

    Life in the Rocky Mountains 1844

  • "NASA, which has tiptoed into the new world of social media with Twittering astronauts and Facebooking rovers, is taking the next step with an invitation-only outreach to" the twedia "to cover a space shuttle launch.

    NASA Watch: June 2009 Archives 2009

  • "NASA, which has tiptoed into the new world of social media with Twittering astronauts and Facebooking rovers, is taking the next step with an invitation-only outreach to" the twedia "to cover a space shuttle launch.

    NASA TweetUp at STS-128 Launch - NASA Watch 2009

  • Delaware-based ILC Dover, which manufactures components for NASA’s spacewalk suits as well as the airbags used by NASA’s Mars rovers, is branching out to develop inflatable prototypes for lunar habitats.

    Wanted: Home-Builders for the Moon | Impact Lab 2007

  • "The rovers are the most powerful, they always have been."

    In the Midnight Hour 2007

  • The rovers were the first line of defense against the thrusts of the forwards, and the guards were the last.

    Trullion: Alastor 2262 Vance, Jack 1973

  • Even while their rovers were the terror of our merchantmen, as has been pointed out, foreign traders were permitted to reside in their ports, the facilities granted to them forming the basis of all subsequent negotiations.

    Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond Budgett Meakin 1886

  • Their name of buccaneers comes from buccan, an Indian word signifying a smoke-house, in which beef and other meats were dried; as one of the earliest enterprises of the rovers was the stealing of Spanish cattle in San

    Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate 1879

  • TRACLabs technology runs on-board the Space Exploration Vehicles, commonly known as rovers, and at the remote operations center at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston.

    PRWeb - Daily News Feed 2010

  • Top it off with counties being served by election "rovers" hired off the street by temp agencies and the recipe for disaster was complete.

    MD Election Chief's Responsibility for Election Failures 2006

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