- present participle of lurch.
lurching
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The slinky, lurching “Husbands,” “Islands of Men” and frantic “Bow Down” sounded meaner and more electric than on the record.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Global financial markets might look like they are lurching from one problem to the next.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
"I immediately felt myself lurching forward and saw my colleagues across from me getting thrown around."
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
The nascent rebound in tech stocks ended in a lurching drop on Tuesday, with the Nasdaq composite losing about 1% in its largest blown gain since early January.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
The view induces the opposite of vertigo, a lurching feeling inspired not by gravity’s pull to earth, but by the infinite reaches of heaven.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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