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Roget

American  
[roh-zhey, roh-zhey, rozh-ey] / roʊˈʒeɪ, ˈroʊ ʒeɪ, ˈrɒʒ eɪ /

noun

  1. Peter Mark, 1779–1869, English physician and author of a thesaurus.


Roget British  
/ ˈrɒʒeɪ /

noun

  1. Peter Mark . 1779–1869, English physician, who on retirement devised a Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (1852), a classified list of synonyms

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Michelin and Continental said they are already focused on making their tyres more durable - Michelin cut its tyre emissions 5% between 2015 and 2020, Roget said.

From Reuters • May 17, 2023

Big, Titanic: A dazzling insight leads Peter Roget to his life’s work — and to immortality.

From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2022

Cyrille Roget, a scientific and innovation expert at the French tyre maker, won't confirm the Bolt reports, but tells the BBC Michelin will have more to say later this year.

From BBC • Jun. 13, 2022

“To be able to work with them on it and be able to work with Roget for the first time” means something, Anderson says.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2021

But to me Roget is full of amusing suggestions, which would really have been very helpful to me had I wanted to use his words for any other purpose than the one in hand.

From Waiting for Daylight by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)

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