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Recent Examples of roller
Alec Bohm drove in a run with a slow roller when Harper hustled to beat shortstop Otto Lopez's throw to second.
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CBS News, 3 May 2026
Ailing Spirit Airlines had been on a roller-coast ride for a couple of years, adding flights and cutting back, sometimes at the same time.
—Miami Herald, 2 May 2026
High-roller gamblers Huda and Saleem Lahlouh from Yorba Linda aren’t putting the brakes on their monthly trips to Las Vegas.
—Pat Maio, Oc Register, 2 May 2026
The only hit was Tatis’ 58 mph roller to shortstop in the seventh.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
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CBS News, 3 May 2026
Ailing Spirit Airlines had been on a roller-coast ride for a couple of years, adding flights and cutting back, sometimes at the same time.
—Miami Herald, 2 May 2026
High-roller gamblers Huda and Saleem Lahlouh from Yorba Linda aren’t putting the brakes on their monthly trips to Las Vegas.
—Pat Maio, Oc Register, 2 May 2026
The only hit was Tatis’ 58 mph roller to shortstop in the seventh.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for roller
Noun
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The brown trout of a lifetime that just sipped your fly can shoot down a riffle and bust that delicate 6-pound tippet.—
Joe Cermele,
Outdoor Life,
19 June 2025
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Here’s a general guideline of the classification of rapids, according to author I. Herbert Gordon: Class I: Easy, slower water with light riffles.—
Morgan Tilton,
Denver Post,
8 June 2025
Noun
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In the scope was one of the many tiny fish bones that were found that day, probably belonging to a small comber or a wrasse.—
Paul Greenberg,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 Dec. 2022
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The destructive combers continued to undermine dwellings near the water’s edge at West Newport Beach.—
Scott Harrison,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Sep. 2019
Noun
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Devoid of facial hair but sporting golden curls, the cherubic Parsons meets me at a Hollywood hotel’s courtyard restaurant in April just a few days after putting the final touches on his movie.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2026
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When Kelly Slater dropped a video of his namesake company’s wave generator churning out a perfect curl back in 2015, the surf community lost its mind.—
David Shortell,
Travel + Leisure,
10 May 2026
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Pipe those wavelets of foie gras feculence over to neighboring Surfside, a two-bathroom kind of town with waste pipes galore.—
Pat Beall,
The Orlando Sentinel,
22 June 2025
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Its wavelets lap enticingly at our feet, but the breaker that might truly knock the breath out of us never comes.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
23 Apr. 2025
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After a tidal wave of blowback that culminated in a lawsuit, a nonprofit health system has reversed course in its plan to replace its Oregon emergency physicians with a national chain.—
Tara Bannow,
STAT,
6 May 2026
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There wasn’t exactly a tidal wave of reaction to the news on social media months ago.—
Michael Deeds,
Idaho Statesman,
29 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Control seems to be the crux of the matter; the red line, the deal-breaker in all of this.—
Beren Cross,
New York Times,
16 May 2026
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Paraguay was the first team to lose a World Cup match because of a golden goal (a tie-breaker consisting of a sudden-death goal scored in extra time) in 1998.—
Tushaar Kuthiala,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
15 May 2026
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Nearly six years into his governorship, Newsom in late 2024 proposed more than doubling the state’s small- and big-screen incentives in an effort to-stem the tsunami of production and projects leaving the home of Hollywood.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
14 May 2026
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The resulting tsunami was nothing short of apocalyptic.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
14 May 2026
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“Roller.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roller. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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