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as in silty
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as in unsettled
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for roily
Adjective
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Arizona is expecting unsettled weather with rain and high-country snow through the weekend.—
Hayleigh Evans,
AZCentral.com,
23 Jan. 2026 -
Pro Football Hall of Famer Jimmy Johnson appeared to be just as unsettled as other football fans were over an AI video that appeared of him during the college football national championship.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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Earlier phases examined high-level safety objectives, passive safety features, cooling systems, containment strategies, and the management of severe accident conditions, with reports from these phases already published.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Jan. 2026
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Norma Sahagun, bargaining chair and special education teacher for moderate to severe disability, said the district is prioritizing management over teachers and students.—
Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Jan. 2026
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The barrage of images broadcast out of Minneapolis and surrounding regions depict violent and brutal encounters and capture moments of utter fear, pain and confusion.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
24 Jan. 2026
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The collective rejection of ICE’s brutal and indefensible assault on Minneapolis is part of a larger wave of solidarity against the federal government.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
23 Jan. 2026
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However, some don’t like the slimy texture, which is why there are many methods to make okra less slimy in the kitchen, rather than more so.—
Andrew Coletti,
Popular Science,
14 Jan. 2026
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Without good air circulation, blades suffocate and die back, leaving slimy, brow,n or black patches.—
Barbara Gillette,
The Spruce,
13 Jan. 2026
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These attempts to keep down the unquiet dead were, besides being desecrations, exercises in a lot of heavy and often forbidden labor done on decaying bodies.—
Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
7 Jan. 2026
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The finale had the impossible task of putting the monstrous show to an unquiet grave, and while some storylines seemed rushed and others completely ignored, even everyone’s least favorite season of GOT is heart palpitating.—
Taylor Antrim,
Vogue,
31 Jan. 2025
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To further muddy eligibility requirements, new legal rulings under consideration may exclude years played in junior college or even professional leagues.—
Sheldon H. Jacobson,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2026
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Whatever has been muddy or poorly understood on the domestic scene should come sharply into focus now.—
Tribune Content Agency,
Baltimore Sun,
18 Jan. 2026
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Two-thirds of the population are living in tents, struggling to survive an extremely harsh winter.—
Sarah Ferguson,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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The cold temperatures will create some harsh driving conditions, especially when combined with snow.—
Terell Bailey,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2026
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The mozzarella in the filling mixture sort of serves as a binder or glue; without it, the cream cheese filling would be all oozy and might squish out of the chicken.—
Ann Taylor Pittman,
Southern Living,
13 July 2025
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So some of the menu items included burrata, the oozy cheese from Puglia, and a riff on the American invention the caesar salad.—
Liza B. Zimmerman,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Roily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roily. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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