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  1. wild goosenoun

    any of many species of wildlife goose, such as the greylag goose or the Canada goose, whose wedge fly in a wedge or V form, or cuneiform, as opposed to the domesticated goose that would not fly.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of wild goose in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of wild goose in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of wild goose in a Sentence

  1. Candice Cooley:

    We need a direction, evidence, something that’s not a wild goose chase, because it’s not good terrain out there, and it’s not for people who just leisurely just want to come out and search, [It’s] over 100 degrees, winds get blowing, and people don’t want you there.

  2. Miguel de Cervantes:

    Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase

  3. Nathaniel Hawthorne:

    Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

  4. Benjamin Kuo:

    You don’t think that sitting behind a computer and looking at a picture and saying, ‘Oh, it looks like that might be where he is,’ would lead to a person being rescued, i was hoping I didn’t send them on a wild goose chase, and then they’d get mad at me.

  5. Neama Rahmani:

    If they provided false information to law enforcement that let Brian laundry take off and get a week head start, or if the parents sent law enforcement on a wild goose chase, searching the preserve when he wasn't there, there's certainly a basis to charge them.


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