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roughness





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The aesthetic favors deliberate roughness and mistakes over a sterile, polished sheen.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 16, 2026

This analysis revealed subtle roughness at the interfaces of these channels.

From Science Daily Mar. 5, 2026

Most EV charging stocks didn’t perform very well this year, partially due to roughness in the EV market.

From MarketWatch Dec. 31, 2025

In a 1919 review of a pair of books by Theodore Dreiser, Virginia Woolf issued some exquisitely backhanded praise for the Indiana-born author, whose writing, she thought, stood out for its roughness and vitality.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 7, 2025

A kind of roughness, or at least the feeling of roughness coming.

From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen




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