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roulette

[roo-let] / ruˈlɛt /


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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

Minimum bets at blackjack and roulette tables inched up.

From The Wall Street Journal May 28, 2026

The existence of these suburban families is known, as is the slippery hope one will never cross paths with them in this ever-spinning round of American roulette.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 5, 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

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

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 John N. Luff

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 Alice Morse Earle

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 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

It is called rouletting in 63oblique parallel cuts and consists of a row of short cuts placed obliquely and parallel to each other.

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

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




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