high-rolling

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of high-rolling Having smoothed things over with Roxie, Jake then returns to the same sweaty, high-rolling, predatory lender to discuss obtaining a large personal loan immediately and off the books. Andy Andersen, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025 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
  • What are these wasteful projects doing?
    Steve Inskeep, NPR, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Insurers have long argued that prior authorization reduces fraud and wasteful spending, as well as prevents potential harm.
    Lauren Sausser, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • It would be accompanied by state audits into how spendthrift local governments overcharge for roads, school construction and parks.
    Stephen Moore, Boston Herald, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Thanks to money-hungry special interests and spendthrift leaders, Californians pay among the highest corporate, sales, gas and income taxes in the nation.
    The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Huppert delivers a commanding performance as Marianne Farrère, a wealthy heiress whose extravagant gifts to a much younger artist ignite public outrage.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Okane is desperate at the prospect of losing both her true love and her one defender, and her desperation gives rise to extravagant and harrowing drama.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 2 Oct. 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 9 Oct. 2025.

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