seesaw
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The past few days of Pike’s life were marked by a seesaw of court decisions as her lawyers tried every angle to save her life.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026
She ultimately took a later flight, but that didn’t put a stop to their emotional seesaw.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
As major U.S. equity indexes continue to seesaw, this could represent an opportunity for anxious investors looking to pick up some portfolio protection on the cheap.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
He compared his job to being on a seesaw: if he stepped down, his co-workers would struggle to keep going.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
He felt the delicate change of balance as when a seesaw moves.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Bonds are like seesaws: When the price rises, the interest rate falls, and vice versa.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
The music seesaws brilliantly between Blanche’s dreaming arias, when time seems to stop, and her impoverished reality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
The show "seesaws between thrilling and annoying", according to USA Today's Kelly Lawler, while the Atlantic's Sophie Gilbert described most of it as "largely joyless and grim".
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2025
His performance as Seth Milchick in Season 2 of “Severance” showcases his range, as his character seesaws from a cheery to chilling middle manager.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2025
Out of the corner of one eye I saw Samuel sitting on the seesaws.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
Healthcare employment seesawed, for instance, when a big strike temporarily put thousands of West Coast nurses and other medical workers off the job in February.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
Japan's debts are more than twice the size of the entire economy, and in recent weeks yields on long-dated bonds have hit record highs while the yen has seesawed.
From Barron's ● Feb. 7, 2026
Meanwhile, Chewy’s stock seesawed to a decline of 0.3% in recent afternoon trading.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 10, 2025
At other times, the 26-year-old charged with murdering the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare seesawed between pain and numbness in his lower back and genital area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2024
The battles seesawed back and forth, favoring first one side then the other, while neither side achieved a decisive victory and the casualties mounted.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
The yearly rate of inflation has shown a similar seesawing pattern.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
Takaichi's economic policies, including a $135-billion stimulus package, have also worried investors, with bond yields rising and the yen seesawing.
From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026
That has resulted in U.S. equity markets seesawing in recent days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
They have looked on the tempests of war, economic turmoil, civil unrest and seesawing politics and remained, as Shakespeare said, an ever-fixed mark, adapting to atmospheric shifts but essentially unchanged.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025
We were still the same seesawing, yin-and-yang duo we’d been for twenty years now and still connected by a visceral and grounding love.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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