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juggle

[juhg-uhl] / ˈdʒʌg əl /


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“He’s got a newborn and a couple other young kids, so he’s got to juggle all that,” Chesney said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

Rachel admitted it had sometimes been difficult to juggle her studies with her parenting commitments, including pulling some "all-nighters" to study.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

Chronic fatigue has become increasingly common in modern life as people juggle heavier workloads and less downtime.

From Science Daily May 29, 2026

He has a turret phone system that allows him to have multiple open phone lines, and it’s not uncommon for Paci to juggle three sets at once.

From The Wall Street Journal May 23, 2026

Ordinary people do better at a task when they focus on it, not try to juggle it with another task.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

Instead, she has been applying for part-time jobs to chip away at her $101,000 student-loan balance, which she juggles on top of her mortgage payments and other costs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

Chip falls in with a troupe of street performers, evades the police, juggles along the Seine and eventually wanders into a smoky bar, where Penelope is strumming her guitar.

From Salon Jun. 30, 2026

Like a lot of farmers, 54-year-old Graham Wilson from Dylife in Powys juggles a few different businesses, one of which involves heading up into the mistier fields and forests, whatever the weather.

From BBC Mar. 8, 2026

Yu, who trains in Hebei and juggles swimming with her school work, took up the sport when she was six as a means of escaping China's searing summer heat.

From Barron's Nov. 12, 2025

Dressed in harlequin style with a grey mask, he juggles shiny silver balls that correspond to each hour.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

Throughout her 20s, she juggled multiple cash-paying jobs, often working gruelling hours.

From Barron's Jul. 28, 2026

Growing up as the youngest of nine children in a cramped council flat in Kilburn, north London, from the age of eight she juggled schoolwork and part-time jobs to earn pocket money.

From BBC Jun. 5, 2026

“I couldn’t have juggled this schedule without them.”

From Los Angeles Times May 28, 2026

He studied musical theater in college, and juggled performing roles with bartending gigs.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 19, 2026

He threw the torch high in the air where the fireball had just been blazing, caught it as it came down, lit more, juggled with three, four, five torches.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

Several women with busy careers spoke to the BBC about the challenges of juggling their work with motherhood in the only industrialised nation that does not mandate paid parental leave.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

As a parent of two kids juggling childcare costs, enrichment activities and our grocery budget, putting money into an investment across the world seemed like a bad move.

From MarketWatch Aug. 10, 2026

But with few barriers to entry, the sector still attracts many workers who migrate from rural areas to cities in search of opportunity, often juggling jobs across several households in a day.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

The moment was the soccer equivalent of an NFL wide receiver juggling a pass in a playoff game and nobody agreeing whether or not it was a catch after an endless delay for review.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

She’s always running around juggling ten jobs at once.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan




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