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roulette

[roo-let] / ruˈlɛt /


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As a result, my roulette fund will improve the “diversification” of your portfolio.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Posting in r/Knitting can be like a game of Russian roulette.

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2026

"He was playing, in effect, a game of ballistic roulette," prosecutor Chad Grunander said.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

Maybe you can fix the whole mess by pressing the right buttons on your remote, but with four to choose from, that’s a game of roulette you’re sure to lose.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

There’s the roulette for tickets, where I once spent a lot of credits only for someone to come up right after me and immediately win five hundred tickets.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

Flicks and tricks and roulettes and rondo after , all soft-shoed and swift.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2013

If America has a Victor Hugo, it is Amy Bloom, whose picaresque novels roam the world, plumb the human heart and send characters into wild roulettes of kismet and calamity.

From Washington Post

Before the players were aware of it, the construction of the roulettes was amended.

From Memoirs of Life and Literature by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock

Gentlemen are sitting baldheaded in elegant dressing-gowns, while their wigs are being taken out of roulettes.

From English Costume by Dion Clayton Calthrop

The roulettes could be put in buckle hot, or they could be rolled cold and the whole wig heated.

From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Alice Morse Earle

Here is an example of this rouletting, in a small gauge.

From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by John N. Luff

There are a number of systems which produce the effect of rouletting in a variety of fancy forms.

From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by John N. Luff

There is still another form of rouletting, which we also show you.

From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by John N. Luff

Between 1848 and 1854 Archer tried many systems for separating stamps, and, in the latter year, perfected a machine for perforating instead of rouletting the margins of adhesives.

From Peeps at Postage Stamps by Stanley Currie Johnson

It is called rouletting in 63oblique parallel cuts and consists of a row of short cuts placed obliquely and parallel to each other.

From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by John N. Luff


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