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"The children rolled down the hill.",
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"Roll the chicken wings in the batter.",
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"A police car rolled up next to us.",
"The children rolled the toy car to each other.",
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"The fog soon rolled away."
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Tracking the scope of government will increasingly pose a challenge, as a progressive savior mentality cannot be useful in pursuit of regulatory oversight, mitigation, rollback , and sunset of government excess. \u2014 Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"The lightbulb rollback was part of the Trump administration\u2019s government-wide war on federal regulations. \u2014 Anna Phillips, Anchorage Daily News , 26 Apr. 2022",
"The Trump administration\u2019s rollback of auto emission standards was one of the most overt examples of its anti-science agenda. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 21 Apr. 2021",
"Economists see little evidence that Mr. Trump\u2019s rollback of climate change rules bolstered the economy. \u2014 Coral Davenport, New York Times , 9 Nov. 2020",
"With seemingly endless sales and rollback prices, the department store is a wonderful option for updating your home on a budget. \u2014 Anna Logan, Country Living , 23 May 2022",
"By the way, broadband investment slumped from 2018 to 2019, while Trump\u2019s rollback of telecom regulation was in full cry, by even more in dollar terms than in 2015-2016. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 19 May 2022",
"Already there have been dire effects of the current rollback . \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Apr. 2022",
"After Trump\u2019s rollback , California adopted its own light bulb standards that withstood a legal challenge from the industry. \u2014 Michael Smolenscolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 29 Apr. 2022"
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"Two students missed roll call .",
"the roll call of the fallen was read aloud at the memorial service",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That afternoon, Miles had been pulled out of roll call along with another officer; a sergeant told the two to go arrest some kids at Hobgood. \u2014 Ken Armstrong, ProPublica , 8 Oct. 2021",
"None of the men return, and, barely ahead of the roll call , Volkogonov flees the building, leaving Veretennikov to an ugly fate \u2014 an act that will come back literally to haunt him. \u2014 Jessica Kiang, Variety , 10 Sep. 2021",
"Brink was confirmed unanimously by the Senate without a formal roll call vote. \u2014 Celina Tebor, USA TODAY , 19 May 2022",
"She was confirmed by the Senate unanimously without a formal roll call vote. \u2014 NBC News , 19 May 2022",
"Rose ceremony roll call : Sarah, Marlena, Genevieve, Mara, Gabby, Susie, Eliza, Hunter, and Shanae join Rachel, Teddi, and Serene in the Circle of Safety\u2122. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 8 Feb. 2022",
"That story, like multiple episodes of The Mandalorian including the second season premiere, involves a roll call of Tatooine favorites, including Tusken raiders, banthas, a red Rodian (like Greedo, only, well, red) and more. \u2014 Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 29 Dec. 2021",
"About roll call , where commanders read names alphabetically. \u2014 Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer , 11 Nov. 2021",
"This year\u2019s edition of the Dia de los Muertos festival features expanded altar sites, as well as a nightly artist mercado, food trucks, a memorial roll call , music, and a beer garden with Modelo beer and Hornitos margaritas. \u2014 al , 4 Nov. 2021"
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"Noun",
"the national rollout of a new wireless service",
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"you'll have to roll out by at least 8:00 a.m. in order to get there on time",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Though this could cause a short-term decline in total viewing hours, this quality over quantity rollout could also entice subscribers to stay put. \u2014 Dana Feldman, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"Drizzy announced the album six hours before its midnight drop with no single or rollout in sight. \u2014 Billboard Staff, Billboard , 28 June 2022",
"The rollout in Nigeria started in March this year as a pilot with 500 bookings so far in Lagos. \u2014 Alexander Onukwue, Quartz , 24 June 2022",
"Some companies have taken similar positions on vaccinating the youngest Americans during the initial rollout . \u2014 Timothy Bella, Washington Post , 23 June 2022",
"For studios looking to use their blockbuster titles to build worldwide streaming businesses, the French restrictions can disrupt global rollout and marketing plans. \u2014 Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter , 23 June 2022",
"This sort of approach to working with great local partners spans free and pay. Give me a snapshot of your rollout plan. \u2014 Nick Vivarelli, Variety , 20 June 2022",
"Covid-19 and an intellectual property dispute with BAT have also slowed the brand\u2019s rollout . \u2014 Carol Ryan, WSJ , 19 June 2022",
"Here's what parents should know about their vaccine options, the rollout timeline and expected side effects of the shots. \u2014 Aria Bendix, NBC News , 17 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Netflix will reportedly widely roll out an extra fee for sharing accounts with people in other households around the same time. \u2014 Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica , 23 June 2022",
"The film will roll out in theaters in January across international territories. \u2014 Elsa Keslassy, Variety , 13 June 2022",
"Apple will also roll out a new payments system in a few weeks that lets users pay somebody by simply tapping iPhones together. \u2014 Gene Marks, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
"In the coming months, the apparel brand will roll out collaborations with Balenciaga, the Parisian fashion house, as well as Denim Tears, the brand run by Supreme creative director Tremaine Emory. \u2014 Jacob Gallagher, WSJ , 13 June 2022",
"After the first episode premieres on June 2 at 9 p.m. PT, subsequent episodes of the series will roll out on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9 p.m. PT from the @Jercho1 and @pearpopofficial TikTok accounts. \u2014 J. Clara Chan, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 June 2022",
"Second, the medical college association will roll out new competency standards for existing medical students, residents, and doctors related to diversity, equity, and inclusion in June. \u2014 Lauren Sausser, NBC News , 21 May 2022",
"Uber will roll out two pilot programs in Los Angeles where Uber Eats deliveries will be completed without a human driver. \u2014 Brett Molina, USA TODAY , 16 May 2022",
"Virtual cards will roll out this summer \u2014 initially only for US users with Visa, American Express and Capital One credit cards. \u2014 Rishi Iyengar, CNN , 11 May 2022"
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"ticket sales are expected to roll up as the date of the concert nears",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In Birmingham, where guns roll up and down Interstate 20 faster than 18 wheelers. \u2014 Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al , 26 May 2022",
"Pescatori del Trasimeno -- where fishermen themselves roll up their sleeves and cook classic dishes of the lake, alongside their partners. \u2014 Julia Buckley, CNN , 12 May 2022",
"There's also a driver's-side airbag, air conditioning, a scrunchy black soft top, windows that roll up and down, and absolutely immaculate Geo hubcaps. \u2014 Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver , 6 Apr. 2022",
"In addition to the suits, which are produced in Timmer\u2019s native Netherlands, a South African outpost produces Shelterbags\u2014portable beds with a sleeping bag and pillow that roll up into a functional backpack. \u2014 Annie Davidson, Robb Report , 22 Mar. 2022",
"The space on Old River Road has been transformed, offering a 280-capacity venue with a large back patio facing the Cuyahoga River and garage doors that can roll up in the summer. \u2014 Anne Nickoloff, cleveland , 15 Mar. 2022",
"With covered tops that roll up or close, these desks offer both visual interest and storage. \u2014 Helen Carefoot, BostonGlobe.com , 6 Mar. 2022",
"Think large-screen televisions that could roll up when not in use, or form-fit screens that wrap around smart speakers or the corners of a room. \u2014 Boone Ashworth, Wired , 8 Feb. 2022",
"With covered tops that roll up or close, these desks offer both visual interest and storage. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Oct. 2021"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-033616",
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": vegetable-tanned leather from sheep, lamb, or calf skins used for covering the rollers of textile machinery":[]
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": to move or behave in a carefree joyous manner : frolic":[]
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"an educator who realized that children need to rollick as well as to study and learn",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Lured by its lively reputation, tourists like to pile into the Kitzloch bar for rollicking music and filling Teutonic food after a long day hitting the slopes in the Austrian Alps. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 28 Mar. 2020",
"Brad Paisley kicks things off with his first variety special, a rollicking romp through comedy, song and the wild streets of Nashville. \u2014 Nancy Kruh, PEOPLE.com , 3 Dec. 2019",
"There are no rollicking , fun-time tracks on Ghosteen. \u2014 Lars Brandle, Billboard , 4 Oct. 2019",
"In the spare, rollicking adaptation by Lisa Peterson and Denis O\u2019Hare, Flanagan narrated the events of the Trojan War, playing some 54 characters, from the fearsome Greek warrior Achilles to his nemesis, Hector, a prince of Troy. \u2014 Andrea Simakis, cleveland , 28 Dec. 2019",
"Restaurants and bars were open, and people sat together at tables, somehow rollicking with laughter. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Dec. 2019",
"First came the novel The Nuclear Age, a rollicking book about one man and family\u2019s attempts to reconcile everyday life with The Bomb. \u2014 Matt Gallagher, Time , 10 Oct. 2019",
"The rest of Jung\u2019s incisive, rollicking profile situates Bong\u2019s identity in contemporary culture as both vital and iconoclastic. \u2014 Longreads , 18 Dec. 2019",
"His marriages could seem like interruptions to Mr. Evans\u2019s rollicking bachelor life, around which legends grew. \u2014 Paul Brownfield, Washington Post , 28 Oct. 2019"
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"We had a rollicking good time.",
"reunions with his friends from college were usually rollicking affairs",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Rodrigo won three in total, actually, including best new artist, capping off a rollicking 15-month stretch. \u2014 New York Times , 6 Apr. 2022",
"It\u2019s a rollicking , joyful piece, and from the opening bars Mir\u00f3 played with a unity that was almost disorienting. \u2014 Elizabeth Nonemaker, baltimoresun.com , 15 Nov. 2021",
"Ghost Hounds opened Saturday\u2019s show with a rollicking 45 minute performance showcasing cuts from their latest studio album, September\u2019s A Little Calamity. \u2014 Jim Ryan, Forbes , 11 Oct. 2021",
"In her formally experimental series of autobiographies, Deborah Levy takes a rollicking , intimate journey through the challenges of motherhood and writing. \u2014 Kirsten Denker, The New Republic , 31 Aug. 2021",
"Dressed in full wigs, makeup and their signature, skintight costumes, co-founders Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons took the stage with guitarist Tommy Thayer and drummer Eric Singer for a rollicking , bombastic set. \u2014 Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY , 12 June 2021",
"In the rollicking Senate District 26 GOP primary, state Rep. Bill Reineke won handily over Melissa Ackison. \u2014 Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland , 29 Apr. 2020",
"Alamo Drafthouse is giving it the movie party treatment, complete with props and surprises to bring the rollicking action onscreen to vivid life inside the theater. \u2014 Hunter Johnson, Dallas News , 27 Feb. 2020",
"The initiative kicks off April 2 with Richard Bean's One Man, Two Guvnors, a rollicking update of Carlo Goldoni's commedia dell'arte classic, The Servant of Two Masters, relocated to the English seaside town of Brighton in 1963. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 26 Mar. 2020"
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"1820, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
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"reduplication of roly , from roll entry 2":"Adjective"
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"Sales of Kodak roll film doubled from 2014 to 2019 and the value of used film cameras has skyrocketed. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 3 Jan. 2022",
"In her appreciation of Ellis after his death in 1989, Post photographer Linda Wheeler wrote that even after photojournalists switched from sheet film to roll film , Ellis preferred to load his 35mm Nikons with 20-frame rolls. \u2014 John Kelly, Washington Post , 23 May 2018"
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"Two people died in a rollover crash in Webster Sunday morning, State Police said. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 27 June 2022",
"Police were called to the scene of a one-vehicle rollover crash June 18 involving a golf cart driven on the road by a Canton boy, 13. \u2014 Joan Rusek, cleveland , 22 June 2022",
"An adult and seven children were hospitalized Sunday, with at least four of the juveniles suffering serious injuries, following an early morning rollover crash near Hoffman Estates, according to Illinois State Police. \u2014 Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune , 12 June 2022",
"Here is a brief summary of this morning's mass casualty response to Megabus rollover on I-95 near #Kingsville. \u2014 CBS News , 22 May 2022",
"Rollovers resulting in vehicle occupant deaths went down a little last year (4 percent year over year), but NHTSA notes that 2021 rollover deaths still eclipsed 2019's toll. \u2014 Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica , 17 May 2022",
"There's no rollover protection, unlike other options on the market. \u2014 Better Homes & Gardens , 16 May 2022",
"The crew was on the way to pick up a patient injured in a vehicle crash when something abruptly happened and the pilot set the helicopter down in what Villanueva described as a hard landing and rollover . \u2014 NBC News , 20 Mar. 2022",
"Also, there were bookkeeping conventions used by the Forest Service: Part of the 2021 costs provided by the agency were rollover expenses from the 2020 August Complex fires, which straddled the fiscal year. \u2014 Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle , 18 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In one room, Boric had his only piece of furniture, an old-fashioned rolltop desk . \u2014 Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
"Brenda, This is a Stow-Davis rolltop desk , about 75 years old. \u2014 Brenda Yenke, cleveland , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Tambour is what makes the lid able to slide, for example, on a rolltop desk . \u2014 Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press , 22 Nov. 2020",
"And this\u2014hung right over my rolltop desk \u2014still marks the turning point between the two. \u2014 Allan Gurganus, The New Yorker , 27 Apr. 2020"
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"The Kyiv School of Economics Institute, which is tallying war destruction, estimates that between Feb. 24 and June 8, Russians inflicted $2.7 billion in damage on the railway infrastructure and rolling stock . \u2014 Jillian Kay Melchior, WSJ , 16 June 2022",
"The focus has shifted from rolling stock to frame angles. \u2014 Josh Patterson, Outside Online , 18 May 2020",
"The Scout's massive rolling stock obviously connects to a four-wheel-drive system, which in turn is controlled through a slick twin-stick, two-speed transfer case. \u2014 Eric Stafford, Car and Driver , 16 Feb. 2022",
"Pan Am Railways began operations in the country's northeast states in 2006, with royal blue rolling stock adorned with the Pan Am name and logo. \u2014 CNN , 3 Dec. 2021",
"The infrastructure funding will help Amtrak upgrade its rolling stock over the next decade. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Nov. 2021",
"When equipped with the optional 37-inch rolling stock , the Raptor takes the lead across the board with a 33.1 degree approach, 24.4 degree breakover and 24.9 degree departure. \u2014 Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes , 9 Sep. 2021",
"In contrast, Amtrak has been plagued by aging rolling stock (some of its rail cars date back almost to its inception 50 years ago) and sagging on-time performance. \u2014 Barbara Peterson, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 7 Sep. 2021",
"Amtrak has signed a mammoth contract with manufacturing company Siemens Mobility for 83 new train sets, part of a $7.3 billion plan to upgrade its rolling stock over the next decade. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 8 July 2021"
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"De Blasio's spokesman Wiley Norvell said the city is encouraging families to sign up their kids by June 26, although there is a rolling deadline until Oct. 1. The sooner families apply, he said, the better chance they'll secure the seat they want.",
"\u2014 Matthew Chayes",
"Many law school use a rolling admissions process, meaning they evaluate applications as they come in and release admissions decisions, one by one.",
"\u2014 Ilana Kowarski",
"The Delaware Aglands Foundation Board announced it will institute a rolling application process for its Young Farmer Loan Program to offer young farmers more flexibility in acquiring a farm.",
"\u2014 The Dover Post"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Detail view of the cam and roller bearing assembly. \u2014 Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Dorella was the one who kept the family going, working up to 12 hours a day at the Mac factory, assembling hulking mechanical toolboxes, fitting each roller bearing and drawer just so. \u2014 Chris Ballard, SI.com , 2 May 2018",
"Dorella was the one who kept the family going, working up to 12 hours a day at the Mac factory, assembling hulking mechanical toolboxes, fitting each roller bearing and drawer just so. \u2014 Chris Ballard, SI.com , 2 May 2018"
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": a machine that backs a book by a roller action and forms shoulders but does not round the book except as the rollers perfect the round already imparted \u2014 compare rounder and backer":[]
"Enjoy live music, food, ThrillAmaze roller skate and laser tag, arts, crafts, games and more. \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 14 June 2022",
"Thompson suggests finding a roller skate that comes with a nylon plate and metal trucks. \u2014 Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping , 2 June 2022",
"For example, acquiring a new roller skate student is more expensive than retaining an existing one. \u2014 Marilisa Barbieri, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"Turns out there are a lot of people who are sort of in the same boat as me\u2014a 60-year-old woman learning how to roller skate . \u2014 Johnny Dodd, PEOPLE.com , 14 June 2022",
"Here are some buying tips on how to find the right roller skate for you. \u2014 Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping , 2 June 2022",
"Opportunities to roller skate in downtown Cincinnati just expanded, thanks to a new mobile roller rink coming to the area. \u2014 Emily Deletter, The Enquirer , 16 May 2022",
"Those selected for jury consideration in the Parkland shooting trial have included: a court bailiff, two employees of the prosecutor\u2019s office, a high school classmate of the judge and someone who taught the judge to roller skate as a child. \u2014 Victoria Ballard, sun-sentinel.com , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Participants are asked to walk, run, run, bike or even roller skate 95 miles on the District\u2019s trails by June 30. \u2014 Annie Alleman, chicagotribune.com , 21 Mar. 2022"
