roily

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Adjective
  • Workers United, which has a bargaining delegation that represents workers at 525 Starbucks stores in the United States, said the coffee giant has yet to bring a comprehensive economic package to the table, while hundreds of legal disputes over unfair labor practices remain unsettled.
    Juveria Tabassum, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Lightning from rare coastal thunderstorms that rolled over the rugged, unsettled land would strike mountaintops, sometimes igniting a fire.
    Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The 16-time NHRA Funny Car champion has had challenging year following a severe crash in Virginia where his car collided with the wall at 300 kmh.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Memory and storage technologies began to recover in the 4th quarter of 2023 after a severe correction in 2022 and most of 2023.
    Thomas Coughlin, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Thousands of prisoners have now been freed, many after decades of incarceration in brutal conditions.
    Salma Abdelaziz, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Winter's brutal grip is continuing Friday for millions across the eastern U.S. as temperatures remain well below average.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • And while the phrase snail essence may conjure images of slime, rest assured: the ingredient is silky, rather than slimy.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2024
  • For just $8, this slimy, squishy fun is great for squeezing, stretching, and stress relief.
    Jacquelyn Smith, Parents, 1 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The decision is an outright and unbridled expression of my unquiet mind.
    Outside Online, Outside Online, 10 July 2024
  • The calamity at Waco, the shipwrecks of the Spanish Armada, unquiet literary unions, a new thriller from Sweden and more.
    Stephen Brumwell, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • At the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, heavy rains—likely influenced by the volcanic disruptions—turned the battlefield into a muddy quagmire, delaying Napoleon's attacks and aiding the Allied forces' eventual victory.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
  • But in the Northeast and Midwest, that research points to a less concrete loss, of ice fishing and pond skating and dogsledding, and other parts of life that just aren’t as possible in a sopping wet, muddy winter.
    Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The corps’ push for additional benefits coincided with a harsh realization for the British Army: For white men, service in the West Indies was viewed as a death sentence due to the high risk of disease.
    Kinsey Gidick, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Remove all types of rose winterization in mid-March before the plants break dormancy but after harsh winter temperatures have passed.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 11 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • In this salad, peppery arugula, an oozy, creamy burrata and crunchy pistachios balance and enhance the fruit.
    Lynda Balslev, The Mercury News, 3 June 2024
  • The demon boar attacks Princess Mononoke (1997) Tomm Moore: The opening sequence, with the big forest god covered in the dark oozy stuff, is cut like a crazy action fantasy, like Star Wars or something.
    Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
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“Roily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roily. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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