rough
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This series sequel enlists Hunter Schafer and Michelle Yeoh to play rough in this dystopia, with Schafer as Cora, a human Blade Runner who teams with Yeoh’s Olwen, a fading replicant.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
The rough amount Nvidia agreed to pay for Hugging Face, an open-source AI platform that began as a sassy chatbot for teens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Logic says pressure will soon intensify, given the increased competition for dollars and rough estimates for $200 billion in new U.S. investment-grade corporate bond supply in the month of September alone.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Teoscar Hernández’s two-run home run in the sixth inning helps power the Dodgers to a 6-1 win over the Detroit Tigers to end a rough month at the plate for L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Betsie and I were put to work leveling some rough ground just inside the camp wall.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
He looks a bit rougher and tougher and I don't think Coventry will keep him out.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
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
My cancer was more treatable, although the cure was much rougher than hers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 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
The rougher mice grabbed the motorcycle and brought Ralph to a halt.
From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary
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
Sixteen years ago, Abdi Nor Iftin was a Somali refugee living in one of the roughest slums in Kenya when he found out he had won the lottery of a lifetime.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
"They're the roughest people you'll ever meet," Trump told the New York Post on Thursday.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
But finally we found the place—an Irish pub, as seedy as the roughest ones on the backstreets of Galway.
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
They saw Sauer get roughed up as a bulk-innings pitcher Tuesday against the Padres, and Miller implode in a 10-run outing in triple-A that same night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 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
“They really roughed you up, companerathe other woman said sadly. “Who are you?”
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
“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
Skilliter then handed out four penalties, a two-minute misconduct to Colorado’s Jack Drury while the Kings’ Samuel Helenius received a two-minute roughing and a 10-minute misconduct and teammate Jeff Malott got a two-minute roughing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2026
Writing in the Financial Times, Rebecca Nicholson says the show "takes a slightly different tack" from the original, "roughing up some of the cuteness with even more chaos and a carefully measured pinch of naughtiness".
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 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
Moon Orchid was eager to work, roughing it in the wilderness.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
