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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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If Euro 7 were used to stop sales of the highest-emitting tyres, "you would already remove a lot of particles from the market", Roget said.

From Reuters • May 17, 2023

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

Henriette Puig-Roget, for instance, simply submitted her name as Monsieur Roget, cross-dressed, and substituted for Charles Tournemire at Ste.-Clotilde.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2021

In the year 1825 a Doctor Roget described in the "Philosophical Transactions" an interesting optical illusion of movement, resulting, for instance, when a wheel is moving along behind a fence of upright bars.

From The Photoplay A Psychological Study by Münsterberg, Hugo

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