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Recent Examples of jockey
Mining has returned to the spotlight as African countries jockey to position themselves for the surging global demand for critical minerals.
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Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 19 Jan. 2026
Really bright people do not jockey for their position.
—Daniel D'addario, Variety, 6 Dec. 2025
But whereas 2020 marked a mad rush for operators large and small to jockey for customers in new states, the pace of change in 2025 is quite different.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 29 Sep. 2025
For weeks leading up to the election, judges barter for their votes with candidates and make deals for which court system, division and courthouse they will be assigned to, and power players jockey for the supervisory placements, or presiding judge positions, by promising a bloc of loyal votes.
—Paul Vallas, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
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Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 19 Jan. 2026
Really bright people do not jockey for their position.
—Daniel D'addario, Variety, 6 Dec. 2025
But whereas 2020 marked a mad rush for operators large and small to jockey for customers in new states, the pace of change in 2025 is quite different.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 29 Sep. 2025
For weeks leading up to the election, judges barter for their votes with candidates and make deals for which court system, division and courthouse they will be assigned to, and power players jockey for the supervisory placements, or presiding judge positions, by promising a bloc of loyal votes.
—Paul Vallas, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jockey
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Those claims alleged that companies had engineered products to be more addictive; for example, by adding chemicals to speed and intensify nicotine delivery to the brain and to ease inhalation, so that smokers would become unable to quit.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
New Yorker,
9 Apr. 2026
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What was more of a challenge than engineering the chip itself was figuring out the details of actually making the chip project images and videos.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
9 Apr. 2026
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UConn announced that track and field senior captain Chloe Trudel was selected to sing the national anthem ahead of the UConn-Illinois game in Indianapolis.—
Kels Dayton,
Hartford Courant,
2 Apr. 2026
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London now plans to field the DragonFire high-energy laser on Type 45 destroyers by 2027.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Apr. 2026
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But Lemann, to her credit, does not play this for laughs.—
Brandy Jensen,
New Yorker,
8 Apr. 2026
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The two entered having played together in only 17 games this season, for a total of 249 minutes.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
8 Apr. 2026
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Does her medical condition affect her ability to treat patients?—
Raven Brunner,
PEOPLE,
10 Apr. 2026
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They were also treated to a celestial marvel, witnessing a total solar eclipse from beyond the moon.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Jockey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jockey. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.
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