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Rosetta

[roh-zet-uh]

noun

  1. a town in N Egypt, at a mouth of the Nile.

  2. a female given name.



Rosetta

/ rəʊˈzɛtə /

noun

  1. the former name of Rashid

“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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Ignoring this opportunity is like discovering the Rosetta Stone and using it as a doorstop.

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Ignoring this opportunity is like discovering the Rosetta Stone and using it as a doorstop.

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The Supreme Court is forcing lower court judges to decipher meaning from Supreme Court decisions as if they’re the Rosetta stone.

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Rosetta Dolphin, Flintshire county councillor for the Greenfield ward affected by the main, said there were a number of homes without water.

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In hindsight, the moment feels like a Rosetta Stone for his political aesthetics: a kind of populist cosplay that collapses grandeur and banality into the same tableau.

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