roughness
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"There is no wear, no surface roughness and no direct contact. Dissipation is generated solely by collective magnetic rearrangements."
From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 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
The call to send Jefferson packing was not made by officials on the field, who flagged him for unnecessary roughness, but by league officials watching from New York.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 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
I assume my position on the block, feel its roughness under my feet, and press my goggles to my eyes.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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