teeter-totter

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India does both: Her haphazard approach to birth control never dims her determination to work as an actor, and her observations teeter-totter between insouciance and profundity.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2024

Now, as we teeter-totter between cool mornings and warm afternoons, it's time to revitalize our kitchen pantries with an assemblage of earthy and spicy aromas.

From Salon • Nov. 10, 2021

For the earthquake two-parter in Season 2, the “9-1-1” team recreated a W Hotel suite on the studio lot, loaded it onto a giant teeter-totter and tilted it to a 30-degree angle.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2021

The median sale price in Seattle dipped slightly, by 3.3%, from last year to $735,000, continuing a monthslong teeter-totter between year-over-year growth and decline.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 5, 2019

He collapsed as hard as if Claudia had suddenly jumped off the down end of a teeter-totter while he was still sitting on the up end.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg