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choppy

adjective as in wavy

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The waters quickly turned choppy after that as the virus spread around the world.

Video posted on Instagram, Tik-Tok and Facebook documented at least 10 other boats rushing to aid the sinking vessel and plucking 60 victims out of the choppy water.

It’s another day of choppy trade in stocks, oil, and in Bitcoin.

From Fortune

From a player standpoint, that means no more choppy, slow-loading environments, and more realistic lighting effects that integrate convincing reflections and highlights.

If video conferencing gets choppy or cuts out, it’s difficult to get information out to kids.

The San Francisco Chronicle called it "choppy and flawed," CNN "a bizarre failure."

(The choppy, inert 2000 TV movie with Toby Stephens, Mira Sorvino and Paul Rudd barely registered a blip).

But it is setting off on a new course, alone, into choppy seas.

After a choppy run in the U.S., could David Beckham be headed to Paris—or China?

You see, when states have the ability to curtail the applications of a Constitutional right, you get into choppy waters.

But there was a breeze blowing, a choppy, stiff wind that whipped the water into froth.

Elton had a pleasant, sun-burnt face and a little choppy moustache beneath which his teeth glistened when he smiled.

We were always out to tea, and to boil the kettle in a choppy sea was the great excitement.

The surface of the ocean was unusually calm for that quarter, in which a rather choppy sea is usually running.

The water was choppy and roily, the canoe bobbed a good deal, the anchors dragged, and we did not see any fish.

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On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to choppy, such as: rough, uneven, inclement, ripply, violent, and wild.

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

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