rocky
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Mattel’s other park ambitions have had rocky starts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
In his first on-the-record interview about his rocky 33 months running Disney, Chapek said Bob Iger campaigned to undermine him and eventually reclaim the helm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Chondrules are small rocky spheres found inside chondrites, which are among the most primitive meteorites preserved in geological collections.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
It’s the latest loss amid a rocky period for California’s wine industry, which has seen wineries of all sizes lay off employees and shut down facilities to cut costs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
He raised prize-winning mules there, and it would take a mule to get down the steep rocky trail to his place.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
While those early investors saw sizable paper gains when SpaceX went public, it’s been a rockier ride since then.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Some systems could produce larger planets, rockier worlds, or perhaps more planets overall.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 1, 2026
But after all the effort invested into building up this relationship, it has never been in a rockier place than it is now.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026
His second season in charge was somewhat rockier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025
The path is still pretty wide, wide enough for horses, but the terrain around us is getting rockier, the path twistier.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
But in his third and rockiest year at the helm of the Trojans, Riley was still compensated like one of the kings of the sport.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
That is helping Weyerhaeuser ride out one of the rockiest periods for the forest-products industry in the past two decades.
From Barron's ● Dec. 16, 2025
Last school year was one of the rockiest years for transportation in the district.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
Peloton CEO Barry McCarthy, who previously served as a Spotify and Netflix executive, took over the helm at the company’s rockiest point in its history.
From The Verge ● Apr. 14, 2022
It was gravelly near the water, rockiest at the lower end, and, from a mouse’s point of view, hilly.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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