jawbone
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These particles interfere with the immune cells responsible for fighting infection, trapping them in a state of excessive inflammation that progressively destroys jawbone.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
In August, human remains, including a jawbone with teeth and dental fillings and rib bones, were discovered at Boulder Beach in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Nor is he using “forward guidance” to jawbone markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
“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
Don’t tell the dangwallet or she’ll jawbone about the cost of the flowers.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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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
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
Their finds included skull and lower jawbones as well as stone tools and the remains of animals the humans hunted.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 8, 2017
Some of them had the beginnings of beards, straggly tufts of hair that stood in isolated clumps on their chins, jawbones, and upper lips.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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And where he lacks legislative authority, the president has jawboned corporate executives to cut drug prices, airline fees and the cost of internet access.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 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
Hoover jawboned businesses to prevent them from cutting workers' wages.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2011
Banks also have other ways of getting more money out of customers if they are jawboned out of raising the prime; they can, for example, simply grant the prime rate to fewer borrowers.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
“Policymakers are wary of endorsing a premature and unwarranted rise in short-term rates and could step up their jawboning efforts in upcoming appearances if markets fail to heed the message,” Schamotta said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025
This consolidation piece is happening at the same time as the jawboning piece.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2025
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