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  • present participle of roast.
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roasting

[roh-sting] / ˈroʊ stɪŋ /


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Tanden willingly participates in the roasting, and as a woman of color, she’s destined to be on the brunt end of the internet, but as far as she’s concerned, it’s all been worth it.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

Turning on the oven quite literally changes the climate of my entire workplace — but roasting summer fruit is one of the few things that makes the sacrifice worthwhile.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026

Officials said that several children outside in a patio area were roasting marshmallows on a device called Flikr Fire, a tabletop fireplace kit that uses rubbing alcohol for fuel and was recalled in 2024.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

Much like the players, Berly Nelson felt like he was roasting in the sun at Lumen Field.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

Sleeping bags and pillows, my Yahtze game, long forks for roasting marshmallows, folding chairs to use around the campfire, Mom’s books, Dad’s wood carving tools, Abby’s doll, my radio, Moose’s basket.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

The image, an immediate Instagram hit, subjected him to one of Twitter’s great roastings, and The Cut declared him a “fancy man.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2020

It is also, in among the drubbings and the roastings, an unlikely good-news story.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2011

But WPB tried to forestall the inevitable by cutting purchases at the source: roastings were curtailed to 75% of last year's, then 65%.

From Time Magazine Archive

Grok's regular roastings of clueless tech reporters has attracted 150,000 readers.

From Time Magazine Archive

The crushings are then roasted in the ordinary way in a reverberatory furnace and the whole of the roastings are passed through the machine we have just described.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 by Various


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