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roil

verb as in irritate

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verb as in upset

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But it’s also about art and imagination and how powerful they can be in tempering the waters when we’ve spent so long drowning in the roiling seas of uninspired uniformity.

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There's a sort of roiling rage and explosion inside him that erupts in the violence.

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Neither hide nor hair of the roiling economy made it into Trump's speech before the National Republican Congressional Committee on Tuesday night.

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Many die-hard Oakland fans in attendance were still roiled by a sense of betrayal at the manner in which the team departed Oakland.

But in the days since, it’s become clear the dismissal is part of a broader campaign against Trump’s perceived enemies that has roiled the Justice Department and some of the nation’s highest-powered law firms.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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