roulette
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“The headline roulette is reaching the point where it is becoming exhausting for oil traders,” said Stephen Innes, managing partner at SPI Asset Management.
From MarketWatch ● May 29, 2026
"For governments to allow private entities to essentially play Russian roulette with every human being on earth is, in my view, a total dereliction of duty," said Russell, a prominent voice on AI safety.
From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026
At the time, each Southwest trip was a game of roulette.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026
Named the Magnavox Odyssey, the console setup included translucent overlays that players stuck on the TV screen to create colorful game boards, such as table tennis, roulette and haunted house.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
There’s the roulette for tickets, where I once spent a lot of credits only for someone to come up right after me and immediately win five hundred tickets.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
Flicks and tricks and roulettes and rondo after , all soft-shoed and swift.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2013
If America has a Victor Hugo, it is Amy Bloom, whose picaresque novels roam the world, plumb the human heart and send characters into wild roulettes of kismet and calamity.
From Washington Post
In these two illustrations are shown roulettes of large and small gauge.
From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by Luff, John N.
Before the players were aware of it, the construction of the roulettes was amended.
From Memoirs of Life and Literature by Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)
The roulettes could be put in buckle hot, or they could be rolled cold and the whole wig heated.
From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Earle, Alice Morse
Stamps thus rouletted have a very ragged edge when torn apart.
From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by Luff, John N.
There is another form of separation called rouletting, from the French "roulette", a little wheel, its simplest form being produced by a small wheel with an edge of sharp points.
From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by Luff, John N.
There are a number of systems which produce the effect of rouletting in a variety of fancy forms.
From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by Luff, John N.
There is still another form of rouletting, which we also show you.
From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by Luff, John N.
Between 1848 and 1854 Archer tried many systems for separating stamps, and, in the latter year, perfected a machine for perforating instead of rouletting the margins of adhesives.
From Peeps at Postage Stamps by Johnson, Stanley Currie
Here is an example of this rouletting, in a small gauge.
From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by Luff, John N.
