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seesaw

verb as in move back and forth

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Night Games will be home to academic experiments — “Sync.Live” — as well as games that ask us to converse and work together via a seesaw, such as the pirate-themed “Back Off Me Booty.”

Twenty years ago, that pattern of protocol was interrupted by then-Vice President Al Gore after his race against Texas Gov. George W. Bush came down to an election-night seesaw in Florida.

At one point when the submersible was being pulled back onto the ship, she described a "seesaw" effect where the sub was supposed to be gently placed on the ship, but the crew let it go and it fell.

From BBC

The federal interest in cities was already dead by the time Joe Biden entered the Senate; it is the seesaw of disinvestment and private capital, not overpowering government intervention, that has determined the shape of the urban landscape since.

From Slate

Kids played on swings, a seesaw and even a small climbing wall.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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