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rough out

verb

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engineering to machine (a workpiece, such as a casting or forging) with heavy cuts leaving a rough surface to be finished

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Also, rough in. Prepare or indicate in unfinished form, as in He roughed out several plans for a merger, or They roughed in where the doors would go without checking with the architect. [Second half of 1700s]

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"When you're shopping for a big family like mine, it's rough out here," she told the BBC while shopping for groceries and taking children to appointments across town.

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It’s rough out there for the Singles of Seattle.

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The researchers roughed out a family tree by comparing the trio’s genomes with those from modern populations and other ancient genomes from the region and across the Americas.

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It was just hard — the independent film business is rough, and it’s been rough out there for a while.”

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It's very rough out here and every day I feel like I'm on a log roll.

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roughneck rough passage

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