rocky
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The issues stem from a rocky transition to a new fulfillment supplier following the bankruptcy of their previous major supplier, FreshRealm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
September was rocky in 2021 and 2022, but during the past few years, the index has managed to finish the month higher, despite some hiccups here and there.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
"A month ago there was nothing here. A rocky mountain, barely any trees, barely any shade. We're arriving now," new resident Reut Baran, 35, told AFP in front of her new home.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Dundee United, Jagiellonia Bialystok and now Hibernian have all taken first-half leads against the Ibrox side as they struggle to find a semblance of form during a rocky start to the campaign.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
It also detects that the terrain will be uneven, rocky.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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
Arabia Terra is certainly rockier than Acidalia Planitia, but nowhere near as bad as I'd feared.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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
Last school year was one of the rockiest years for transportation in the district.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
It has also been one of the rockiest Android OS launches in the past few years.
From The Verge ● Jan. 13, 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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