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swerve

[swurv] / swɜrv /


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The views were spectacular, if you had the guts to swerve your eyes from the white-knuckling road.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

The footage shows the oncoming bus is forced to swerve into the adjacent lane to avoid hitting the woman.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026

I want to swerve here to talk about the word that keeps coming to mind when I look at the president’s leadership, and it is “mood.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026

Fourteen vehicles were forced to swerve to avoid crashing into the stranded car.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026

The driver later said that she saw the rats and tried to swerve but that they leaped onto their hind legs and jumped in front of her.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

There are a number of weird swerves in this generous, if convoluted, offer from your relative.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

We should be so lucky to experience a film that swerves just when we think we’ve made up our minds.

From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026

And so what happens on a day-to-day basis, there are enormous swerves in what one should expect for the United States in particular.

From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2026

Like the time Gabriel spends in Faith’s company, “The Predicament” is full of “sparks and kicks and swerves and percussions.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025

A driver behind us blares on his horn and swerves around.

From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist

More than two decades after these aired, we’ve swerved between an age of unattainable thinness being pushed as a cultural ideal and a time of healthy-at-any-size body positivity from which we’re slowly regressing.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

He headed toward a schoolyard but when he spotted kids, he swerved and crash-landed into a tree.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

And if they couldn’t stick to the center, they did the next best thing and swerved to the shoulder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

Critics say the prime minister has swerved from one policy misstep to another during his 22 months at the helm.

From Barron's ● May 14, 2026

Vehicles swerved around each other and around the streetcars that ran down the center of the road.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

And Alonzo’s Anne and Zach Trent’s Skateboard Fenton, the young lovers swerving around parental obstacles, are a delightful throwback to those gaga California kids from the age of “Gidget.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

They show riders from children to young people on a night out stepping into Waymos and buckling up, along with shots of Waymos swerving to avoid accidents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

He added: "It's getting to the stage now where it could become a safety issue because of people swerving potholes."

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

Images circulating on social media showed the truck performing a wheelie before swerving off the track and crashing into the barriers separating the public from the track.

From Barron's ● May 4, 2026

She slammed the car into drive and pulled off in a cloud of burning rubber and smoke, swerving down the street, screaming hysterically— “ Wooooooooo!”

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride




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