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[tog-uhl] / ˈtɒg əl /


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Unlike Anthropic and OpenAI, which Kharazian said are incentivized to make users spend as much as possible on tokens, Cursor allows users to toggle between smarter but more expensive models and cheaper alternatives.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 19, 2026

He can toggle between modes — attack dog in conservative media, measured moderate in mixed company — but the transitions are visible.

From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026

D’Arcy describes their work as “pretending” in one breath while in another sharing their strong feelings around dramaturgy and text as they toggle between discussions of stage, film and television acting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

In one instance, a cyber team found a toggle switch that sailors were using to electronically flip between vessel names—the digital equivalent of painting over the ship’s real name on the hull.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

Mr. Robineau flipped the master toggle on the console.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

At ProjectionLab and MaxiFi, the toggles for this kind of doomsday calculation are part of their regular inputs for your Social Security primary insurance amount, or PIA.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026

Set on a country estate, it toggles between the Regency Era and the present and weaves together physics, history and a whodunnit involving the poet Lord Byron.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2025

Bier, however, said that for users in countries "where speech has penalties," the feature includes privacy toggles that reveal only the region.

From Barron's ● Nov. 24, 2025

Queen's Park manager Callum Davidson rocked back in his chair in the Ibrox press box, pulled his jacket hood over his face, and pulled the toggles in anguish.

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2025

Jumping up as the car’s flame went higher, he pushed the control box’s toggles down hard.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

He wants more details on the fuel switches and believes an on-board electrical failure could cause the system to believe the switches were toggled to “CUTOFF.”

From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026

Mr. Whipple, in his media victory lap, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that normally when he’s spoken to former chiefs of staff they’ve toggled between background, off the record and on.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025

These solids can be toggled between two distinct states.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2025

From a hotel room in Santa Monica, Silverstein toggled between watching TV news and the Ring cameras stationed around his home as the fire gradually encircled his property through the night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2024

She toggled the appropriate keys and spoke clearly into the headset.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

Sucking out excess humidity makes the air feel crisper and cooler without toggling the thermostat.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026

The president had spent his 80th birthday toggling between congratulatory calls and urgent conversations with senior aides and foreign leaders as he raced to lock in the fragile preliminary peace agreement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

To address this limitation, the researchers designed an integrated device capable of toggling between electric and magnetic toroidal vortex patterns in free-space terahertz pulses.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 4, 2026

In a week in which we found ourselves toggling between “the tide is turning!” and “all is lost!”

From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2025

Twiddling a switch or knobs implies much less sense of purpose than toggling or tweaking it; see frobnicate.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Guy L. Steele




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