rough
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The first integration of my school was rough.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
All of which make the sprawling district in Nevada’s rough and rocky Great Basin an improbable political bellwether.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
Instead of the smaller pot's smooth surface, the larger vessel was rough, and its material does not appear to match established local pottery traditions.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
The RAIB, which is continuing to investigate the derailment, said it had received "several reports of rough riding at the location of the derailment from passengers on other trains".
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
We know so much more about the brain today than the Phrenologists and the Whole Brainers did in 1850, yet we really understand only the rough outlines.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Your son has, perhaps, been given a rougher deal: Even though he is a full-time student with little or no income, he still pays about $500 for health insurance.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
But in a 1989 profile by the US Drug Enforcement Administration, he has frizzy hair and rougher features.
From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026
"Finally, they are making their way back on shore where, unfortunately, a lot of them are already dead or dying as they approach the coastlines and get into rougher coastal waters."
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026
She guides us and listens to each of us and what we need and how to make it maybe look a little bit nicer or rougher or whatever it is.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026
On rougher ground, you were sent out to clear a space five inches deep and five feet square.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
Wall Street just limped through its roughest stretch in months, and every investor is asking the same nervous question: Is the worst over in the stock market, or is the selloff just getting started?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
It had the power to soothe the roughest of sore throats and quiet the phlegmiest of coughs.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
"They're the roughest people you'll ever meet," Trump told the New York Post on Thursday.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
Congolese mining towns tend to be porous and migrant-heavy, rough, difficult places to live in some of the country’s roughest, most difficult areas, where there is plenty of reason to distrust outsiders.
From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2026
“The thought of my child growing inside you will keep me going through the roughest days,” he writes.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
‘Actually I, uh, roughed out a draft of it while you were at that, uh, baby thing. Do you mind?’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2025
May has gone at least five innings in each of his five starts, getting roughed up in only one while posting a 3.95 ERA.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2025
Over the weekend, he posted a long message complaining that the New York Times was planning to report that he’d gotten roughed up, injuring his shoulder, in a sparring match with an agency jujitsu instructor.
From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2025
Now, once again, India’s corporate champion has been roughed up.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2024
At my feet are mounds of burned-out candle wax, fistfuls of dying flowers blown by the wind and roughed by the ravages of the street.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
If there is a non-Glasgow team capable of roughing up the big two as Heart of Midlothian did repeatedly last season then we're in for a wild ride.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
“While we’ve made a lot of improvements, you still feel like you’re roughing it, and I love that.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
Maybe the world needed to be slammed up against the boards, even if a roughing or slashing penalty is eventually called.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025
Their opponents have been called six times for roughing Mahomes and four times for unnecessary roughness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2025
Ahead, the Finns scuffed and sidled into Lash, roughing him up.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
