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noun
a random, enormous ocean wave that sometimes travels at an angle to prevailing seas.
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How to use rogue wave in a sentence
The unusually big swells of this winter season have also forced me to be prepared, push my limits, and handle rogue waves and hold-downs and other people’s flying boards and bodies.
Then this year, mathematicians developed an overarching method of predicting when and where rogue waves might appear, as writer Charlie Wood described in “The Grand Unified Theory of Rogue Waves.”