high-rolling

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Recent Examples of high-rolling Trade deadlines are all about risk and reward, and the New York Mets certainly entered the proceedings with a high-rolling attitude this season. Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for high-rolling
Adjective
  • Overall, this wasn’t a terrible episode, but having our heroes start in the UK and then end up in Spain in the first episode felt rushed and wasteful.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Is the packaging consciously designed or needlessly wasteful?
    Lily Wohlner, Allure, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Galle’s father worked for Marie Antoinette, but the French Revolution unsurprisingly had a major impact on the aristocratic market for spendthrift furnishings like this.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024
  • Those could have been used to constrain distributions to or for the benefit of the spendthrift child.
    Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
Adjective
  • What to expect Vaughn said the boutique has something for everyone with dress sizes ranging from zero to 28 and a variety of styles from short and simple to long and extravagant.
    Emma George-Griffin, Freep.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • As the dust settles on another chaotic summer of extravagant Premier League spending, there’s time to take a step back.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Of course, the same folks who said Trump’s tariffs would cause runaway inflation also said Biden’s profligate spending wouldn’t cause inflation.
    E.J. Antoni, Boston Herald, 13 July 2025
  • Dembele, once a creative, two-footed but profligate winger who Luis Enrique coached into a prolific striker, has not started any of the five Club World Cup games.
    Liam Tharme, New York Times, 8 July 2025

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“High-rolling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high-rolling. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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