jawbone

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is projecting a more humble view after failing to jawbone the bond market.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

Nor is he using “forward guidance” to jawbone markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

He removed the tumour and part of the diseased jawbone, but the electrochemotherapy was administered to target any remaining cancerous cells.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

One photo showed a human jawbone complete with teeth and dental fillings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

It was the jawbone of some enormous reptile.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

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

Some of the jab jab masqueraders wore cow horns on their heads or carried cow jawbones, plastic snakes or chains — a reminder of slavery.

From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2018

Her forehead is high and smooth, her jawbones sloping and unusually long.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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

Just as in his ad against Cruz, Davis' monologue in "Bernie" occurred while he wore casual clothes and jawboned at a local barbecue establishment.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2018

This has long been an issue for the U.S. government, which has jawboned these countries to little effect.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2016

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

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

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

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