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as in enraged
feeling or showing anger
he waited until he wasn't so obviously roiled before voicing a complaint to the manager
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as in muddy
having visible particles in liquid suspension
the roiled water made more difficult the work of the divers searching the river for the missing canoeists
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as in angered
to make angry
the clerk's brusque refusal of her request roiled her enough to prompt a complaint to his supervisor
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Recent Examples of roiled
Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
She’s not just roiled on her own behalf.
—Alanna Bennett, Glamour, 3 Oct. 2024
At least two dozen possible threats, leading to multiple arrests of teenagers, have roiled Michigan schools in September, the first full month of classes for most schools.
—Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 30 Sep. 2024
At a time when the country must unify, with the Middle East roiled in conflict and an emboldened Iran testing its regional power, Israel does not need yet another threat to its national security.
—Shalom Lipner, Foreign Affairs, 26 Apr. 2018
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Past coverage Politics California races roiled by border, immigration.
—Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
She’s not just roiled on her own behalf.
—Alanna Bennett, Glamour, 3 Oct. 2024
At least two dozen possible threats, leading to multiple arrests of teenagers, have roiled Michigan schools in September, the first full month of classes for most schools.
—Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 30 Sep. 2024
At a time when the country must unify, with the Middle East roiled in conflict and an emboldened Iran testing its regional power, Israel does not need yet another threat to its national security.
—Shalom Lipner, Foreign Affairs, 26 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for roiled
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The expansive interview-laden liner notes and fly-on-the-wall session tapes provide illuminating context, and Sean’s mixes render tracks originally made for the muddy mono of AM radio in vital clarity for the AirPod era.Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 21 Nov. 2024
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In front of them, there’s a massive number 40 carved deep into a field, creating a dirty, muddy obstacle course.Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
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The trip to Moscow angered EU and NATO leaders, and Jens Stoltenberg, then the secretary general of the transatlantic defense alliance, said Orbán's visit did not represent the bloc or its Ukraine policies.Ibrahim Aksoy, CBS News, 18 Oct. 2024
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The bill has angered the French left, who view it as a means of appeasing far-right lawmakers in parliament.Frey Lindsay, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
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Grass carp make the water more turbid; stiltgrass and common reed can block sight lines and reduce property values; and sea lamprey are a shocking sight when they are attached to sport fish.Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2024
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The die-offs may be attributable to algae blooms and cloudy, turbid water observed by scientists in the spring and summer of 2022, VIMS and the Chesapeake Bay Program said in news releases.Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 31 July 2024
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The storm churned east-northeastward toward Cape Canaveral with maximum sustained winds of 85 miles per hour and is moving off the coast of Florida into the Atlantic, according to the National Hurricane Center.Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2024
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But by Tuesday evening, the storm churned over the Yucatán Peninsula with maximum wind speeds hovering around 165 mph — which is above the 157 mph threshold for a Category 5 storm.Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2024
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Hezbollah’s reputation in the country has suffered; many Lebanese, including the militia’s Shiite supporters, are angry at the scale of destruction of a war that many saw as unnecessary.Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Nov. 2024
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Yet just a season ago the Galaxy’s main supporters’ groups were boycotting home games, angry over the team’s lack of direction and its dysfunctional front office.Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2024
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Others enraged by Bobba’s comments targeted the founders online — a response Liu has since condemned.Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2024
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And that has enraged the country.NBC News, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2024
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Many Disney employees were outraged by the bill, and because the company’s largest theme park is based in the state, there was massive internal pressure on then-CEO Bob Chapek to speak out against it.Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2024
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Vance is equally fluent in the language of the national élite, and therefore knows how to get the national media to cover his crazy theories, and how to get national people outraged by them.David Fontana, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
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Lucas was shocked and hurt that his generous offers kept being rebuffed; the people who organized against him were indignant that a billionaire could be so cavalier about their public land.Elizabeth Blackwell, Longreads, 14 Nov. 2024
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Asked by The Times in 2011 to compare himself to Kanye West (now known as Ye), Jones seemed indignant.Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Roiled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roiled. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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