Definitely. I'm not trying to excuse authors or editors, just to get my head round it.

Any chance it's more commonly the result of copying citations from others' papers than of including citations generated directly by LLMs?

By 'older' I mean *beginning* earlier. It's not a question of one sense supplanting another. The older of these senses is alive and kicking alongside the newer.

You'll have read it already, but Philippe Sands's 38 Londres Street may be worth a gander.

Hence Hugh Jampton.

Hampton Wick is rhyming slang for prick?

Same here. There was a constant hum at work, in an office on Temple Gate, but that was definitely from internal combustion engines and diesel locomotives.

He didn't live in Bristol, did he?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpeK...

Must be a Santa Fun Run.

Are they borrowing it from the V&A?
www.vam.ac.uk/articles/tip...

What do you call a deer with no eyes, no legs and no torso?

A hatstand.

That actually needs updating. It's been noted in Notes and Queries that Hilaire Belloc also once used vagulous, coining it from *Animula vagula blandula*, a poem the emperor Hadrian (76–138) may have written on his deathbed.
academic.oup.com/nq/article/5...

Seems to be part of his MO. In the 12th point of his concluding 10-point summary, he uses the word vagulous, which the OED says is 'Apparently an isolated use' from Virginia Woolf.

Alpacas seem to be all over the Midlands. No idea why. This alpaca farm, a few miles away, is selling them as animals to have experiences with!
www.pukkapacas.com

I'm not so sure. He probably read not only the OED entry but also the item in Notes and Queries that reckons Belloc was the first to use it, alluding to 'the anthology-piece *Animula vagula blandula*, composed by the Emperor Hadrian (76–138) as he lay dying'.
academic.oup.com/nq/article/5...

I'm hooked.