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as in enraged
feeling or showing anger he waited until he wasn't so obviously roiled before voicing a complaint to the manager

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as in muddy
having visible particles in liquid suspension the roiled water made more difficult the work of the divers searching the river for the missing canoeists

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roiled

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verb

past tense of roil

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Recent Examples of roiled
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One reason for the AI recovery rally may be that the market is feeling a little better about the AI funding worries that roiled markets last week. — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026 These included Capra’s weak-kneed response to the anti-Communist crusade that roiled mid-20th-century Hollywood and his occasional failure to adequately credit his collaborators. — Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026 Spain has been roiled by protests this fall around the issue of housing, as rental and home costs have risen in recent years beyond what many Spaniards can afford. — ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026 More than 50,000 people are estimated to have died across Europe’s cities during the brutal heat waves that roiled the continent this summer — making this year’s heat the region’s deadliest on record, according to a new analysis. — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2026 The addition of this ad so close to Election Day roiled races in Ohio up and down the ballot. — Philip Elliott, Time, 21 Oct. 2026 The unpopular war, which has roiled oil markets, has been a drag on Republicans in the midterms. — Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2026 Nationwide protests over the high cost of living roiled France on Saturday, adding to turmoil over public spending and debt ahead of a critical vote in the National Assembly. — Jason Ma, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026 Protests by high school students angry about dilapidated, understaffed schools have roiled France since mid-September. — John Leicester, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2026
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  • Humiliated and enraged, Shurpanakha flees and recounts the incident to her brother Khara, setting in motion a series of confrontations between the rakshasas and Rama and Lakshmana.
    — Tamanna Nangia, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026
  • And not just any velociraptor, but the enraged dinosaur that pushed franchise champion Rachel Reilly into a volcano, thereby burning the reality TV icon to a crisp in a sea of lava.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2026
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  • Introduced in muddy, crunchy scenes of big game highlights and raucous partying, the boys hear news of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Police later recovered the firearms in the bottom of a muddy canal at Northwest 10th Street and 18th Avenue.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2026
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  • But up to this point, DIIV have endured—thrived, even—because of their refusal to capitulate to the industry winds that swirled around them.
    — Larry Fitzmaurice, Pitchfork, 30 Oct. 2026
  • In the lead-up to Kushner’s arrival last summer, speculation about his agenda swirled in Paris.
    — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
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  • The trail’s California Environmental Quality Act exemption has angered an array of people.
    — Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Soon, other aggrieved groups—farmers, trade unionists, climate activists, yellow-vest protesters angered by rising costs—joined in, and the demonstrations that followed quickly became some of France’s most widespread and explosive since 1968.
    — Maurice Samuels, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2026
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  • Thus a group of angry Roman Catholics, led by Robert Catesby, began plotting a way to topple the Protestant government.
    — Lucia Barnum, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Oct. 2026
  • The Packers come off an angry loss while the Panthers were humiliated on Sunday.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 29 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • But his script, co-written with regular collaborator Jack Coulter, is less impressive, welding together story scraps from other, better films to rather turbid, uninvolving effect.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Since then, shifting groundwater and agricultural activity nearby have made the water increasingly turbid.
    — Sarah Evans, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
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  • The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Rosie Manins reported that the case churned in the judicial system’s gears for over a decade before reaching this denouement.
    — Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 1 Nov. 2026
  • To make New York-style bagels like George’s, the dough is churned in a mixer, kneaded by hand, and cold-fermented.
    — HubSpot, HubSpot, 30 Oct. 2026
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  • The deal surprised and infuriated Netanyahu, who tried without success to scuttle the final nuclear agreement, which was signed in 2015.
    — Dalia Dassa Kaye, Foreign Affairs, 27 Oct. 2026
  • The lack of action has infuriated abuse survivors and their advocates.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2026

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“Roiled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roiled. Accessed 2 Nov. 2026.

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