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rocky

[rok-ee] / ˈrɒk i /




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In his first on-the-record interview about his rocky 33 months running Disney, Chapek said Bob Iger campaigned to undermine him and eventually reclaim the helm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

It’s the latest loss amid a rocky period for California’s wine industry, which has seen wineries of all sizes lay off employees and shut down facilities to cut costs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

With bright, pink hair, she was more focused on singing in a "very punk, rocky type" band called The Mephs, short for Mephistophelean Engines of Pleasure.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Scientists assumed that the collision was so energetic that the rocky bodies could effectively be treated like fluids.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

They arced up from the shallows, over a rocky cove, and landed on the shore.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

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

The new year is already off to a rockier start, with the stock down around 24% in 2026.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

Arabia Terra is certainly rockier than Acidalia Planitia, but nowhere near as bad as I'd feared.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

But in his third and rockiest year at the helm of the Trojans, Riley was still compensated like one of the kings of the sport.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 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

The totality of the departures — 25 percent of the membership — heaps additional pressure on Commissioner George Kliavkoff, whose two years at the helm have been arguably the rockiest in conference history.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2023

It was one of the rockiest starts for a wide release of Android yet, and hopefully, history doesn’t repeat itself with the Pixel 7 launch right around the corner.

From The Verge ● Sep. 6, 2022

The trail maintainers in Maine have a certain hale devotion to seeking out the rockiest climbs and most forbidding slopes, and of these Maine has a breathtaking plenitude.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson




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