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swinging

[swing-ing] / ˈswɪŋ ɪŋ /
ADJECTIVE
moving backward and forward
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When one ball is released, its momentum passes straight through the row and sends the ball at the far end swinging outward, while the others barely move.

From Science Daily

Also, choppy markets that are swinging wildly may bring the illusion of sector rotations, but those often don’t result in meaningful trends.

From The Wall Street Journal

For a tired bicep curl: “Avoid swinging your body for momentum.”

From The Wall Street Journal

But whenever she spotted another tote in the wild—on the Tube, outside a pub, swinging from someone’s shoulder on a crowded street—she felt a spark of recognition.

From The Wall Street Journal

He writes, for example, that the guitarist James Blood Ulmer plays “shrill, disjointed fragments, nervous bits and rickety pieces tied together by a staggered but wryly swinging thematic sensibility.”

From The Wall Street Journal