rough
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The father told authorities that rough waves had struck the jet ski and caused the engine to stop towards the end of the rental period, the Bangkok Post reports.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
As I stood on a spectacular wraparound balcony on about the 20th floor, looking out on the azure waters of Biscayne Bay beneath me, I did some rough calculations.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Treat that list of 960,000 properties as a rough starting point for the pied-à-terre tax pool, not the final list of who owes the tax.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
A rough calculation suggests that last year’s cityide overall homelessness number would have still have been an increase, but by a more modest rate of just under 1.9%, not 3.4%.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
They were rough, with calluses from sewing, burns from ironing, cuts from slicing potatoes.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
Your son has, perhaps, been given a rougher deal: Even though he is a full-time student with little or no income, he still pays about $500 for health insurance.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Bonds are an excellent barometer of broader investor sentiment and usually act as an early beacon for rougher seas ahead.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
One especially noticeable blue-black patch in the rougher section of the valley is believed to be volcanic ash that was later redistributed by Martian winds, as seen in the accompanying 3D perspective views.
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2026
They stared down presumably rougher Texas in the national semifinals and painted the floor in streaks of Longhorn and won the second-most important game of their lives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2026
My family left our temporary housing for a house in another inner-city neighborhood, which seemed even rougher and poorer than the first.
From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
Wall Street just limped through its roughest stretch in months, and every investor is asking the same nervous question: Is the worst over in the stock market, or is the selloff just getting started?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
It had the power to soothe the roughest of sore throats and quiet the phlegmiest of coughs.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
"They're the roughest people you'll ever meet," Trump told the New York Post on Thursday.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
Congolese mining towns tend to be porous and migrant-heavy, rough, difficult places to live in some of the country’s roughest, most difficult areas, where there is plenty of reason to distrust outsiders.
From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2026
She came out of Berwind, which was one of the grittiest and roughest towns in the county.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
‘Actually I, uh, roughed out a draft of it while you were at that, uh, baby thing. Do you mind?’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2025
Over the weekend, he posted a long message complaining that the New York Times was planning to report that he’d gotten roughed up, injuring his shoulder, in a sparring match with an agency jujitsu instructor.
From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2025
Now, once again, India’s corporate champion has been roughed up.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2024
He picked up wonderful positions, roughed up opposition defenders, while also missing several chances alongside his two goals.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2024
Sefia recognized the young sentry, though now his hair had been roughed up on one side and there was a bruise soaking his cheek.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
If there is a non-Glasgow team capable of roughing up the big two as Heart of Midlothian did repeatedly last season then we're in for a wild ride.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
“While we’ve made a lot of improvements, you still feel like you’re roughing it, and I love that.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
Facing fourth-and-19, he managed to convert with a completion to receiver Wan’Dale Robinson—while absorbing a roughing the passer that gave New York an additional 15 yards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025
More than the force applied on the quarterback, roughing the passer is more of a timing issue, Carey said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2024
Another new ball from behind the backstop and Willis roughing it up again.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
