roach
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Lucy Galvin, the city council leader, said she and other residents had noticed dead pike, carp, roach, eel, rudd and dace.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
Despite the roach infestation, JPMorgan dived into External link private credit, along with the rest of Wall Street, with Dimon reckoning his bank could handle the risk.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
During the COVID-19 pandemic, I was quarantined in an apartment building with a roach infestation.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 11, 2025
The typical alternative fund is “a roach motel,” says Auwaerter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
After about fifteen minutes of Bugs screaming the joint down they said they were going to have to take him to the emergency room to get the roach out.
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
“You turn the lights on, and the roaches run.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Inmates are housed in unsafe, dirty facilities infested with roaches and rats, Bonta said in a news conference Monday, and lack basic access to clean water and edible food.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2025
If the space roaches don’t kill us, a malfunctioning, ticked-off droid might.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2025
In transit, bedsheets, scraps of paper, even Bibles are lit on fire and used to burn out roaches crawling through cracks and hiding in the crevices.
From Slate ● May 19, 2025
A delegation of roaches appeared and bowed low.
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
