rocky
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"I've had both my hips replaced, so there was no way I could have gone up the rocky side of it," said Helen, from Hull in Yorkshire.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Other popular cruises include excursions run by Cap’n Fish’s Cruises out of Boothbay Harbor to nearby Eastern Egg Rock, a 7-acre rocky island hosting about 80 breeding puffin pairs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
While Phobos is heavily marked by craters, Deimos appears smoother because much of its surface is covered by loose dust and rocky debris known as regolith.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
The northwestern part of Motte Rimrock Reserve, a biological field station on a rocky plateau managed by UC Riverside, also falls in an evacuation warning zone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
He raised prize-winning mules there, and it would take a mule to get down the steep rocky trail to his place.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
While those early investors saw sizable paper gains when SpaceX went public, it’s been a rockier ride since then.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Her biggest hit, the rockier Total Eclipse of the Heart, arrived six years later in 1983 - this time topping the charts on both sides of the Atlantic.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Some systems could produce larger planets, rockier worlds, or perhaps more planets overall.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 1, 2026
His second season in charge was somewhat rockier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025
The path is still pretty wide, wide enough for horses, but the terrain around us is getting rockier, the path twistier.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
The past year—which included parent company Paramount’s controversial merger with Skydance Media, and the installment of Bari Weiss as CBS News’ editor in chief—has been one of the rockiest in 60 Minutes’ decadeslong history.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
That is helping Weyerhaeuser ride out one of the rockiest periods for the forest-products industry in the past two decades.
From Barron's ● Dec. 16, 2025
But redemption truly will be judged in this series, and he got off to the rockiest of starts, missing his first six threes before finally splashing one in the fourth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2024
Peloton CEO Barry McCarthy, who previously served as a Spotify and Netflix executive, took over the helm at the company’s rockiest point in its history.
From The Verge ● Apr. 14, 2022
It was gravelly near the water, rockiest at the lower end, and, from a mouse’s point of view, hilly.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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