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"You swing from sadness to anger because you just feel it could have been prevented."
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
“Any swing in any direction could make a big change,” Waldman said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Now that a super-eruption appears imminent with high confidence, world leaders swing into action.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
He is played with a fine sense of clueless arrogance by Mr. Son, as the character idly practices his golf swing with a precision he fails to bring to his idle and addled mind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Josie could barely believe her eyes: The front door was open, just at the point of starting to swing shut.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Yet this week he fretted about the pendulum swinging too far the other way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 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
The planet's water cycle is becoming increasingly erratic, swinging between too little and too much, the United Nations warned Thursday, with an unprecedented El Nino expected to exacerbate the long-term trend.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
After a few years in which mainstream culture at least made noises about retiring the worst excesses of early-aughts thinspo, the pendulum appears to be swinging back.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
He crossed the room and perched on the corner of his desk, one jaunty foot swinging.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
And he has swung a hot bat in September, entering Sunday with a .919 OPS this month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
Spencer—an earl, historian and former NBC journalist—in his book “Swan Song: Diana, My Sister” has again swung the spotlight back to that difficult time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
However, the game swung again in the over after Kelly reached his hundred as the left-hander heaved Tom Helm to Higgins on the mid-wicket fence to leave Leicestershire eight down.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
The match swung back and forth, with neither pair able to sustain a telling lead, but three birdies in a row from the 11th gave the Swedes a two-hole lead.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
The door swung open, sending a rush of forest debris over Clare’s freshly scrubbed hollow.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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