swinging
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For Halff, the problem with going quiet about global warming isn’t just the prospect of policies swinging back the other way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
In this series, he has two hits and two strikeouts in eight at-bats, and his inability to refrain from swinging at pitches outside the strike zone has become a glaring weakness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Sales volumes in the 21-member currency area rose 0.1% on month, swinging from a 0.6% decline in July, the European Union’s statistics body Eurostat said Tuesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Paphos district court was told in July that the boy fell through an open window when his father was holding him around his waist and swinging him from side to side.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Maybe the swinging door had hit her in the head one too many times.
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
In a considerable shock the successive diminishing swingings amount to dozens before they become so slight as to elude perception.
From Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
But all oscillations are equalized by swingings to the other side.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women by Elbert Hubbard
But she began to swing heavily, with deep, slow swingings.
From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series by Lafcadio Hearn
He peeped in, and between the swingings caught glimpses of little blue and yellow flowers arranged in tight bunches in hanging vases.
From The Little House in the Fairy Wood by Ethel Cook Eliot
There are stationary swingings, as well as swingings of the kind to which I just alluded.
From Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen. by Dr. John Scudder
Eventually, everybody hails her as the swingingest, dingdongest member of the jet set along with Bobbsie-Ann Boggsen and Minni Ogden Foote.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, after four years' touring with a small combo, Basie collected a new 16-piece ensemble in 1952, and within a year it was fully established as the swingingest band in the land.
From Time Magazine Archive
These days one of the swingingest places in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott is the Chinese cultural mission, which features French movies instead of propaganda films.
From Time Magazine Archive
Occasionally, a happy song acquires a little reverse teen feel: My name is Oliver Cool I'm the most swingingest boy in school, but the most trustworthy bets are exploration of the lower reaches of emotions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fifteen rowdy and tender numbers played by one of the swingingest bands of all.
From Time Magazine Archive
