jawbone
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“If the Fed chair has the ability to try to jawbone those lower and provide some assurances,” he said, “I do think that would also provide the tailwind.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
In a dry riverbed deep within a forest near the Amazon in Brazil, paleontologists uncovered a fossilized jawbone from a previously unknown ancient animal.
From Science Daily ● May 1, 2026
The jawbone of the ancient reptile was unearthed in Arizona back in 2011, but modern scanning techniques have now revealed details showing that it belongs to a species new to science.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2025
Forensic genealogists solve a 21-year-old case, linking a jawbone to a U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024
His tightly curling hair was cut short, and he had a narrow, short beard along his jawbone.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
Real jawbones of dead whales were first raised on top of West Cliff in 1964 as a symbol of Whitby's maritime heritage.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Several jawbones contained smooth deposits inside their empty tooth sockets that looked different from naturally accumulated sediment.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
A digital comparison of the newly uncovered mandible with 83 other jawbones confirmed a strange mix of ancient and modern anatomical features.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 19, 2023
Herbivorous mammals like the giraffe have front teeth, muscular lips, flattened molars, and jawbones that pull and grind leaves in a side-to-side motion.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2018
Her forehead is high and smooth, her jawbones sloping and unusually long.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
"It turns out… that they jawboned him for a year-and-a-half," Barr said on Thursday.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2023
Finance Minister Shinichi Suzuki jawboned markets against pushing down the yen too much, saying earlier on Wednesday that rapid moves in the yen were "undesirable."
From Reuters ● Apr. 13, 2022
He argued calls, jawboned umps, ran the base paths as aggressively—and menacingly—as any opposing player who’d ever tried to knock him down or spike him on a slide.
From Time ● Apr. 15, 2016
In 1995, he jawboned his way into a Smithsonian internship.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2016
Okun figures that between 1966 and 1968, wholesale prices rose an average 2.3% a year for most industries; they went up only 1.7% in 15 "jawboned" industries, including steel, copper, autos and aluminum.
From Time Magazine Archive
Another, says Nuttall, is that constant jawboning about deals has led to several price plunges, making traders cautious.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Neither Modi’s jawboning nor an estimated $100 billion in Reserve Bank of India intervention has stemmed the decline so far, though, says Venkat Pasupuleti, portfolio manager for India at Dalton Investments.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
But Bessent has not just been jawboning the Dow; he has been making military pronouncements on cable news.
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2026
Oil dropped on these remarks on Tuesday and equities bounced — even though the president was just jawboning.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 11, 2026
Let’s talk about Murthy, because I think it’s largely been framed as a case about what’s called jawboning, right?
From Slate ● Mar. 18, 2024
