lurching

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On social-media platforms like X, some investors have loudly proclaimed that after years of serving as the dominant cryptocurrency, bitcoin might finally be lurching toward irrelevance.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

Meanwhile the Caliente Range — those mountains just to the west — are lurching the opposite way.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

Gianrico Farrugia, Mayo’s chief executive, acknowledges the risks of lurching into an unknowable future, but tells the author that “the risk of not going fast enough is far greater at this point.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 8, 2026

England's horrific Ashes tour is lurching towards a final defeat after a remorseless Steve Smith century followed Travis Head's spectacular 163 on the third day of the fifth Test.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2026

Brian Johnson opened the season with a fifteen-yard run off the right side through a gaping hole to the Permian 47, lurching forward for every possible extra inch.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger