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Recent Examples of roller
The Attorney General, Pam Bondi, treats oversight like roller derby, Ruth Marcus reports.
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Hannah Jocelyn, New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2026
María Aracelia was pushing two roller suitcases across the pedestrian bridge from Ciudad Juarez to El Paso on Wednesday morning.
—Darlene Superville, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
Go roller skating Active children can head to the roller rink at United Skates of America for a day full of fun.
—Catherine Messier, The Providence Journal, 11 Feb. 2026
Just be sure there isn’t a brush roller on your vacuum that could scratch hardwood flooring.
—Jamie Cuccinelli, Martha Stewart, 10 Feb. 2026
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Hannah Jocelyn, New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2026
María Aracelia was pushing two roller suitcases across the pedestrian bridge from Ciudad Juarez to El Paso on Wednesday morning.
—Darlene Superville, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
Go roller skating Active children can head to the roller rink at United Skates of America for a day full of fun.
—Catherine Messier, The Providence Journal, 11 Feb. 2026
Just be sure there isn’t a brush roller on your vacuum that could scratch hardwood flooring.
—Jamie Cuccinelli, Martha Stewart, 10 Feb. 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
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The northeastern part of Norway curls around Sweden and borders Finland, too.—
Peter Baugh,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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The cloud of cream cheese over the top is light as air, weighed down with a heap of Parmesan cheese grated so finely the curls disappear on your tongue.—
Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 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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That gives Bhusri a solid chunk of time to see if a cofounder in the CEO seat can have an impact on the stock price in the midst of an AI tidal wave.—
Amanda Gerut,
Fortune,
13 Feb. 2026
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Karen Kovacs notes that NBCUniversal in 2024 established a Creators Collective around the Paris Summer Games that yielded a tidal wave of content that added to the buzz around the Games.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
5 Feb. 2026
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If the answer is yes, service scope is a design problem, not a deal breaker.—
Erik Huberman,
Rolling Stone,
11 Feb. 2026
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Finally, last month a cruise ship got trapped in ice in Antarctica, and a US Coast Guard ice-breaker had to come to free it from its frosty prison.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
7 Feb. 2026
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Developers have multiple projects in the pipeline in Hood County, including a 2,600-acre data center complex called Comanche Circle that has triggered a tsunami of opposition from ranchers, landowners and conservationists near Glen Rose.—
Elizabeth Campbell,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
11 Feb. 2026
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Its closure followed the 2011 Fukushima disaster when a 49-foot-long (15-metre) tsunami disabled critical power and cooling systems.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Roller.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roller. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.
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