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Recent Examples of jockey
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.
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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
Players from 25 to 35 in the FedEx Cup standings, in particular, will jockey for positioning throughout the week.
—Bennett Conlin, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2025
As OpenAI continues to jockey in the global race for AI dominance, the company noted that less time spent in ChatGPT could actually be a sign that its product did its job.
—Angela Yang, NBC news, 4 Aug. 2025
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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
Players from 25 to 35 in the FedEx Cup standings, in particular, will jockey for positioning throughout the week.
—Bennett Conlin, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2025
As OpenAI continues to jockey in the global race for AI dominance, the company noted that less time spent in ChatGPT could actually be a sign that its product did its job.
—Angela Yang, NBC news, 4 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jockey
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But below deck, in machinery spaces and fuel tanks, Norway is quietly engineering its post-oil future.—
Ryan Craggs,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Jan. 2026
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Structural batteries are engineered to carry mechanical loads while simultaneously storing electrical energy.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Jan. 2026
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Even after seeing the Hawks essentially forced into salary-dumping four-time All-Star Trae Young to the Wizards for CJ McCollum and Corey Kispert, the Grizzlies weren’t scared away from fielding calls.—
Zach Harper,
New York Times,
12 Jan. 2026
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For the better part of eight years after Super Bowl 50, the Broncos were an organization with delusions of adequacy, fielding mediocre teams with major problems with ownership drama, mismanaged rosters, ghost drafts and an endless carousel of underwhelming quarterbacks.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
11 Jan. 2026
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Peat fit in well with Arizona’s veteran lineup, as the freshman didn’t force the issue and played within the offense.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
11 Jan. 2026
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Guys were playing hard, everybody on that drive was doing their job, and getting guys down on the ground.—
Mike Kaye
Updated January 11,
Charlotte Observer,
11 Jan. 2026
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If that variability truly influences how a patient will fare with different treatments, psychiatry may need to advance how depression is diagnosed and thus treated, Bentzley said.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
15 Jan. 2026
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Miyazaki’s singular style — his hand-drawn, painterly aesthetic and his thematic focus on a child’s-eye view of morally complex, humanistic tales — has been treated as the sole Asian animation worthy of entry into the Oscar canon.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Jan. 2026
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