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roulette

[roo-let] / ruˈlɛt /


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"He was playing, in effect, a game of ballistic roulette," prosecutor Chad Grunander said.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

Spin the roulette wheel, if you like, and none of us will find out.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

Minimum bets at blackjack and roulette tables inched up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 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

In roulette, what’s occurred previously has no effect on the probability of future spins of the wheel.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

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 cycloid is the simplest member of the class of curves known as roulettes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various

Gentlemen are sitting baldheaded in elegant dressing-gowns, while their wigs are being taken out of roulettes.

From English Costume by Dion Clayton Calthrop

In these two illustrations are shown roulettes of large and 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

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

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

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

There are a number of systems which produce the effect of rouletting in a variety of fancy forms.

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




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