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[roil] / rɔɪl /




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Appeared in the December 2, 2025, print edition as 'Questions About NATO’s Future Roil Europe'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

“Every region in the country wants its own AVE, whether they need it or not,” says Ricard Roil, president of the Barcelona-based Association to Promote Public Transportation.

From Time • Jul. 29, 2013

"Vive le Roil Vive la France!" cried a throng of French and Brazilian Royalists, some of them poor people who had come all the way to Palermo at great personal sacrifice.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the height of this confusion Edward VII arrived, almost went unnoticed until Mortier, shouting "Vive le Roil" ran back and forth crying, "I have two kings!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Roil, roil, v.t. to render turbid: to vex: to rile: to salt fish with a machine called a Roil′er—also Royle.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various




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