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Recent Examples of rocky
Along with the flyby footage that shows off the moon’s rocky surface dotted with impact craters, the spacecraft also captured stunning imagery of an area of the lunar south pole.
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Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 24 Feb. 2025
The length of Quickley’s absences, followed by a predictably rocky return to play, will only brighten the spotlight associated with the dollar figure.
—Eric Koreen, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
But a rocky pilot notwithstanding, season 1 introduced a bounty of long-running jokes that would continue to be developed over the course of the show — see: The Rural Juror — plus a bevy of phenomenal guest stars.
—EW.com, 19 Feb. 2025
The packs of mules trekked through treacherous roadways and rocky mountain sides to deliver food, water and building supplies to those devastated by the hurricane.
—Devyn Byers, CNN, 16 Feb. 2025
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Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 24 Feb. 2025
The length of Quickley’s absences, followed by a predictably rocky return to play, will only brighten the spotlight associated with the dollar figure.
—Eric Koreen, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
But a rocky pilot notwithstanding, season 1 introduced a bounty of long-running jokes that would continue to be developed over the course of the show — see: The Rural Juror — plus a bevy of phenomenal guest stars.
—EW.com, 19 Feb. 2025
The packs of mules trekked through treacherous roadways and rocky mountain sides to deliver food, water and building supplies to those devastated by the hurricane.
—Devyn Byers, CNN, 16 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rocky
Adjective
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Over the course of these pictures, Mad Max himself has gone from a man who has lost everything to an existential ghost, a quiet and stony figure with no past and no future.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
27 Feb. 2025
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Needless to say, the comments were met with a stony silence in Europe, and were the strongest signal yet of a widening ideological and geopolitical rift between the two powers since President Donald Trump came to power.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
15 Feb. 2025
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His commitment to America's European allies is shaky at best, and nobody in their right minds still believes that Trump would endanger New York or Washington to attack—let alone to nuke—Moscow or Saint Petersburg in defense of Warsaw or Paris.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
27 Feb. 2025
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Several momentum stocks that are part of the artificial intelligence trade have been shaky since the emergence of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek in late January.—
Fred Imbert,
CNBC,
25 Feb. 2025
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The clear turquoise water of Oura Bay comes right up to the hotel’s beach—rocky in some parts, sandy in others.—
Maya Kachroo-Levine,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Feb. 2025
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Due to the sandy terrain, tent campers will want to bring extra-long stakes.—
Symiah Dorsey,
Southern Living,
27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Skiers and riders can make their way to the tippy top of the mountain on the higher bowls for a little fun on peaks 6, 7, and 8, but be warned.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
17 Feb. 2025
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But after that, sure enough, fun highlights, including the tippy top of the loop and superfast glimpse of Universal CityWalk, the busting through the New York facade, surfing above the queue and doubling back dramatically to the loading station.—
Dewayne Bevil,
Orlando Sentinel,
8 Jan. 2025
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Recent events, like 23andMe going bankrupt, highlight just how precarious the situation can be.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
Fox News,
24 Feb. 2025
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Systemic inequities, along with growing DEI resistance and an avalanche of executive orders have created a precarious work environment.—
Janice Gassam Asare,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Darkly tipsy aromas that include rum, fruit cake, maraschino cherries, slight petrol and carrot cake.—
Tom Mullen,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
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An arrangement by Thomas Adès of Conlon Nancarrow’s Study No. 6, one of his ingenious player-piano exercises, somehow transformed complex rhythmic layerings into a blithe, tipsy rumba.—
Zachary Woolfe,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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From far above, the area around Yanghai cemetery looks like a collection of ground-dwelling wasp dens, drilled into a gravelly desert.—
Sarah Scoles,
Discover Magazine,
9 Jan. 2018
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This is the gravelly voice-over of Henry Hill speaking dutifully about downtown theater!—
Hunter Harris,
Vulture,
27 May 2022
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Between the lines: Mayors have long used bond issues for city maintenance, but part of the fight here — and this gets a little wonky — is about the type of bond and how it's repaid.—
Monica Eng,
Axios,
26 Feb. 2025
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Unlike Gundam, which has many games (most of which can be rather underwhelming), Cowboy Bebop has only two to date: a weird shmup on the PSone and a functionally wonky action game on the PlayStation 2.—
Ollie Barder,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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“Rocky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rocky. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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