rocky
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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
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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
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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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