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This analysis revealed subtle roughness at the interfaces of these channels.

From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2026

Most EV charging stocks didn’t perform very well this year, partially due to roughness in the EV market.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 31, 2025

In a 1919 review of a pair of books by Theodore Dreiser, Virginia Woolf issued some exquisitely backhanded praise for the Indiana-born author, whose writing, she thought, stood out for its roughness and vitality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

He drew seven fines last season and has been fined three times this season for a total of $34,784 for unsportsmanlike conduct and unnecessary roughness violations.

From Barron's • Oct. 13, 2025

A kind of roughness, or at least the feeling of roughness coming.

From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen




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