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Instead, the residents went to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education — elevating grievances that had roiled the teaching hospital for years to a body with the power to shut down the entire facility.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2023

The reversal of parts of a controversial UK fiscal plan that had roiled bond markets also aided sentiment.

From Reuters • Oct. 18, 2022

By around 1450 the Little Ice Age, among other factors, had destroyed the Greenland Norse colony, and plague and political upheaval had roiled the Kingdom of Norway.

From Scientific American • Sep. 15, 2022

In July, weeks after the controversy that had roiled its stock, Cettire suggested it would expand into children’s wear and said it was “still assessing new opportunities for growth.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 2021

Something had roiled the blood in her delicate veins until it had muddied the clear freshness of her smooth satiny skin.

From Her Father's Daughter by Stratton-Porter, Gene