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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

The sensation inside is so familiar, so comforting and recognizable and real that Bailey can feel the roughness of the bark, the smell of the acorns, even the chattering of the squirrels.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern




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