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gyrate

[jahy-rayt, jahy-rayt, jahy-rayt] / ˈdʒaɪ reɪt, dʒaɪˈreɪt, ˈdʒaɪ reɪt /


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Since a primary contributor to that problem is volatility, the boom in leveraged funds targeting single stocks like SpaceX spells danger because an individual security can gyrate more than an index.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Oil prices can gyrate sharply, so Fed officials prefer to look at a separate measure of inflation known as the core rate that strips out energy.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026

Those bearing the structures often gyrate to the beat provided by percussionists alongside religious chants and devotional folk songs.

From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026

At 30.7% late on Wednesday, that gauge of how much traders expect the shares to gyrate still remains well below the high of 82% touched in March.

From Reuters ● Aug. 10, 2023

He saw the two dial indicators gyrate frantically.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

Key details: The headline increase in wholesale prices was exaggerated by a large rise in a category known as retail trade margins that often gyrates sharply from month to month.

From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026

Delia is possessed by a ghoul who makes her sing the Caribbean number in the voice of Belafonte while she gyrates with her mortified dinner guests.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026

Then, after he talks himself out, he gyrates to the music, waving his veiny arms in the air.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2025

In pink trousers and a matching puffer jacket, Grammy-nominated Kenyan musician Bien-Aime Alusa gyrates on stage as he sings to a bank of swaying fans, many capturing the moment on their mobile phones.

From Reuters ● Jan. 5, 2023

The globule of blood gyrates around its own axis in the human veins, as the planet in the sky; and the circles of intellect relate to those of the heavens.

From Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Korean stocks gyrated, triggering circuit-breakers meant to stop losses on the way down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

The purchasing power of gold has gyrated from one year to the next.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2025

Dancers in feathered headdresses gyrated and strutted in parades featuring lavish floats with giant figures of Greek gods or pop stars.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

On a recent Wednesday, a Chinese fire dancer gyrated to the drone of a didgeridoo, an Indigenous Australian instrument, in the courtyard of an Israeli musician’s home.

From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024

Mop gave a thumbs-up while Bren gyrated and did some weird dance move and almost fell over.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya

Stocks are gyrating as though there’s a full-blown crisis, while the S&P 500 is just 2% from its high.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026

“Sexistential” presents both sides of a modern mother’s Venn diagram, with Robyn gyrating in its overlapping middle, inviting us to her party.

From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2026

The rock music was booming, the dancers on stage were gyrating, and the crowd was going wild waving thousands of Taiwan flags.

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2024

Catta-Preta’s fireball energy delivers loud laughs, dancing, singing, gyrating and serving up humor in two languages — there seems to be nothing this fiery Brazilian can’t do.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2023

When the lyrics kick in, Halliday begins to lip-synch along, still gyrating: “All dressed up with nowhere to go. Walking with a dead man over my shoulder. Don’t run away, it’s only me....”

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline




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