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as in angers
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 roils
Dear Reader, For Bon Appétit’s food editors, the holidays roll around when the heat of summer still roils the sidewalks outside the Test Kitchen.
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Bon Appétit Test Kitchen, Bon Appetit Magazine, 22 Dec. 2025
That goal, and the man, remain at the center of a dispute that still roils Santa Ana a year after Rodriguez’s death.
—Mona Darwish, Oc Register, 5 Dec. 2025
The Atlantic roils under the graying sky, the breeze turning everyone’s nipples to glass.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2025
Gambling scandal roils the NBA A big reason for Kansas City’s success has been the improved play of its pass catchers.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 27 Oct. 2025
The contention over Bad Bunny's impending performance at the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show roils on.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Oct. 2025
The debate now roils state legislatures nationwide.
—Laurie Kellman, Twin Cities, 23 Sep. 2025
During inflation, everything got bigger, including the sub-microscopic quantum foam that constantly roils and bubbles at the tiniest scales.
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for roils
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Harris is one of tens of thousands of Americans killed or injured each year by gun violence, a public health crisis that escalated in the pandemic and churns a new victim into a hospital emergency room every half hour.—
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The uptrend remains in place, for sure, even as the index churns under 6900.—
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What angers me is thinking about what could have been.—
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And nothing angers the Survivor gods more than reality TV hubris.—
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Longer-term, Indomo seeks to tackle conditions including keloids, boils and more via its ClearPen technology.—
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Gretchen is just as bad as Tamra, two boils on the same hairy ass.—
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Investigative reporting is bad enough; often what really infuriates him is jokes.—
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Elsewhere, the photo of Cartman is a reference to his reaction of Clyde’s incendiary new podcast that has a right wing theme that infuriates the perpetual instigator.—
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To load the product onto the brush, Barnes swirls the tool into the pan twice and taps it twice to prevent fallout.—
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The lights are dim and jazzy music swirls the intimate crowd.—
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While this violation enrages the village’s women, the men who make up the Panchayat (village council) try and fail to cast her out of town.—
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The funniest part to me is that amid this violence — as someone is literally trying to kill him — the thing that enrages Beom-mo the most is when his wife’s top starts to slip down.—
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The river tumbles and seethes through 278 miles of Grand Canyon National Park, taking its geologic time in carving a trench now deeper than a mile.—
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This is why Dijon’s language works best as sound, not narrative—his rangy, raspy voice seethes and triumphs, mocks and threatens; there’s no world in which his polygonal perspective can be discerned from a lyric sheet.—
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Therapeutic Chiron spins direct in your 11th House of Friendship, turning awkward group dynamics into teachable moments and opening space for clear team agreements.—
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This recipe takes a classic grits recipe and spins it into an immensely flavorful breakfast casserole.—
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“Roils.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roils. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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