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Only 10 days ago, he pulled off an impressive victory, in what one former minister described as a "Russian roulette" by-election in Makerfield, beating Reform and defying Labour's lack of popularity.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

“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

I got myself relaxed in my chair and looked up at the boarding passengers, enjoying Southwest open seating roulette one last time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026

My twenty- three paired chromosomes have linked up and crossed over, spinning their roulette wheel, as my papou puts his hand on my mother’s belly and says, “Lucky two!”

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

Gentlemen are sitting baldheaded in elegant dressing-gowns, while their wigs are being taken out of roulettes.

From English Costume by Dion Clayton Calthrop

The cycloid is the simplest member of the class of curves known as roulettes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various

Before the players were aware of it, the construction of the roulettes was amended.

From Memoirs of Life and Literature by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock

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 John N. Luff

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 Stanley Currie Johnson

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 John N. Luff

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 John N. Luff

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 John N. Luff

These points receive ink the same as other parts of the surface of the plate and the effect thus produced is called rouletting in colored lines.

From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by John N. Luff