masterless
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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After stealing a letter containing secret information early in the game, the player’s ronin, or masterless samurai, must decide which faction most deserves it.
From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2024
Watching this, I thought of, in feudal Japan, the example of the ronin, the masterless samurai.
From Slate • May 30, 2018
Vardi, a professor at Rice University and Guggenheim fellow, said that technology presents a more subtle threat than the masterless drones that some activists fear.
From The Guardian • Feb. 13, 2016
Asano’s masterless samurai, or ronin, set out to avenge him.
From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2013
But it was taken by fell men whom the Enemy in his first strength had dominated, and who wandered homeless and masterless after his fall.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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