roulette
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Spin the roulette wheel, if you like, and none of us will find out.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
"For governments to allow private entities to essentially play Russian roulette with every human being on earth is, in my view, a total dereliction of duty," said Russell, a prominent voice on AI safety.
From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026
Named the Magnavox Odyssey, the console setup included translucent overlays that players stuck on the TV screen to create colorful game boards, such as table tennis, roulette and haunted house.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Iain Jenkins said Eljamel "played Russian roulette" with his spine during the 1999 private operation carried out while he was captain of Dundee United.
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2026
Above the roulette tables, screens listed the results of the most recent twenty spins of the wheel.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Flicks and tricks and roulettes and rondo after , all soft-shoed and swift.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2013
If America has a Victor Hugo, it is Amy Bloom, whose picaresque novels roam the world, plumb the human heart and send characters into wild roulettes of kismet and calamity.
From Washington Post
The roulettes could be put in buckle hot, or they could be rolled cold and the whole wig heated.
From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Alice Morse Earle
Before the players were aware of it, the construction of the roulettes was amended.
From Memoirs of Life and Literature by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock
Gentlemen are sitting baldheaded in elegant dressing-gowns, while their wigs are being taken out of roulettes.
From English Costume by Dion Clayton Calthrop
Stamps thus rouletted have a very ragged edge when torn apart.
From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by John N. Luff
Here is an example of this rouletting, in a small gauge.
From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by John N. Luff
It is called rouletting in 63oblique parallel cuts and consists of a row of short cuts placed obliquely and parallel to each other.
From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by John N. Luff
Between 1848 and 1854 Archer tried many systems for separating stamps, and, in the latter year, perfected a machine for perforating instead of rouletting the margins of adhesives.
From Peeps at Postage Stamps by Stanley Currie Johnson
There is still another form of rouletting, which we also show you.
From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by John N. Luff
These points receive ink the same as other parts of the surface of the plate and the effect thus produced is called rouletting in colored lines.
From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by John N. Luff
