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Recent Examples of roller
With one out and runners on first and second, Brock hit a roller that instead of resulting in a double play was booted by LeBlanc to load the bases.
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Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 7 June 2026
For a mower with roller brackets, remove the nuts securing the brackets.
—Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 6 June 2026
Once you’re done with the paint roller, pour any leftover paint back into the can, carefully fold up the foil, and discard.
—Darcy Lenz, Southern Living, 6 June 2026
The roller ball applicator is great for on-the-go use, while the oil provides a long-lasting host for scent that blooms with your body heat.
—Reece Andavolgyi, InStyle, 3 June 2026
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Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 7 June 2026
For a mower with roller brackets, remove the nuts securing the brackets.
—Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 6 June 2026
Once you’re done with the paint roller, pour any leftover paint back into the can, carefully fold up the foil, and discard.
—Darcy Lenz, Southern Living, 6 June 2026
The roller ball applicator is great for on-the-go use, while the oil provides a long-lasting host for scent that blooms with your body heat.
—Reece Andavolgyi, InStyle, 3 June 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
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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
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The five-alarm fire currently stoked by Garrett Graham suggests that what women are really yearning for isn’t a brooding hockey stud with saturnine curls and complicated rage issues but a man who, at his core, seems to like and care about women.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
10 June 2026
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Boutte’s only targets came courtesy of DeVito, who overshot him in the end zone and ripped a short curl-route completion to him in front of undrafted rookie corner Channing Canada.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
9 June 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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Nor does freedom of speech seem an unambiguous value as a tidal wave of toxic disinformation washes over the republic in its 250th year.—
Wyatt Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
2 June 2026
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Then-President Joe Biden’s party lost nine seats and control of the House that year — not a political tidal wave as many pundits predicted, but a defeat nonetheless.—
Jeremy Lott,
The Washington Examiner,
30 May 2026
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Officers recovered a backpack containing screwdrivers, a pry bar, a glass breaker, and 26 live rounds of 9mm ammunition while questioning Powers about a garage break-in in the 10500 block of Kedvale Avenue, police said.—
Dennis Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
10 June 2026
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Even so, 2027 is not a record-breaker.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
10 June 2026
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The installation is inspired by the original Wind Phone, created in Japan by garden designer Itaru Sasaki following the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami.—
Itay Hod,
CBS News,
11 June 2026
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Smaller waves washed ashore in Indonesia and Palau and as far away as southern Japan before tsunami warnings were lifted.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
10 June 2026
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“Roller.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roller. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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