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Recent Examples of rocky
The heir to a newspaper fortune, Logan meets Rory at Yale and gets off to a rocky start while working on the Yale Daily News together.
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Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 16 June 2026
Roku has recently returned to shareholder favor following a rocky period.
—Lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 16 June 2026
Crews continue to face challenges due to steep, rocky terrain, according to Cal Fire.
—Paris Barraza, USA Today, 16 June 2026
Things between Janny and I were rocky.
—Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
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Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 16 June 2026
Roku has recently returned to shareholder favor following a rocky period.
—Lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 16 June 2026
Crews continue to face challenges due to steep, rocky terrain, according to Cal Fire.
—Paris Barraza, USA Today, 16 June 2026
Things between Janny and I were rocky.
—Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rocky
Adjective
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On March 4, the walls of a Travis County courtroom in Austin felt wobbly with grief.—
Karen Valby,
Vanity Fair,
16 June 2026
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Double heel raises, which are a breeze on land, were nearly impossible on the wobbly mat.—
Deborah Vankin,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2026
Adjective
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Oscar Wilde, for example, reposes beneath a hulking deity whose iconoclastic castration, back in 1961, did little to restrain pilgrims seeking to smear red lips across his stony physique.—
Emily Cox,
ARTnews.com,
22 May 2026
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Instead of looking like a sleek urban loft, the room can quickly start to feel cold, stony, and impersonal.—
Natasha Bazika,
Martha Stewart,
9 May 2026
Adjective
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But all that construction could be off to a shaky start, suggests Nerma Caluk, an engineer and lunar specialist for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, an architecture and structural engineering firm in San Francisco, California.—
Leonard David,
Space.com,
20 June 2026
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After a shaky first quarter that gave way to a nine-point advantage for the Wings, the Valkyries woke up thanks to a huge spark off the bench from Kaitlyn Chen.—
Nathan Canilao,
Mercury News,
18 June 2026
Adjective
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Celebrate the completion of your road trip with a victory ride on the roller coaster, or simply relax on the broad, sandy beach.—
Elizabeth Rhodes,
Travel + Leisure,
18 June 2026
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The seemingly unconnected and largely overlooked disappearances of young women became the focus of true-crime documentaries, books and podcasts after police began discovering the victims’ skeletal remains in the sandy scrub along a coastal parkway.—
Philip Marcelo,
Los Angeles Times,
17 June 2026
Adjective
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The pair both had matching 8.24 GPAs, putting them at the tippy top of their class of over 500 students.—
Paloma Chavez,
PEOPLE,
9 June 2026
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Grocery shopping poses a unique set of challenges that involves tippy toes and resourcefulness.—
Donna Vickroy,
Chicago Tribune,
29 May 2026
Adjective
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The pebbly, black-sand beach is known for its calm waters, perfect for swimming.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
7 June 2026
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The vineyards lie in the Canavese, on the sandy, pebbly slopes of the Ivrea morainic amphitheatre, a vast glacial relief north of Turin that spills into the provinces of Biella and Vercelli.—
Paul Caputo,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
Adjective
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What begins as a race to the Moon becomes a mirror of our current, precarious era, just as a new global space race ignites.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
17 June 2026
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The defensive play helped buoy an otherwise precarious start by pitcher Eric Lauer.—
Liana Handler
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
16 June 2026
Adjective
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The road’s hairpin turns and gravelly washes mean slow going; the trip from Marfa to Chinati Hot Springs will likely take around two hours.—
Eva Frederick,
Travel + Leisure,
13 Apr. 2026
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Like many other succulents, 'Angelina' stonecrops are drought-tolerant, can grow in sandy or gravelly soil, and thrive in sunny, well-draining conditions.—
Nishaa Sharma,
The Spruce,
4 Apr. 2026
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“Rocky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rocky. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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