Thesaurus results for LURCHED

lurched

verb

past tense of lurch

as in swayed

to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions the room lurched with every jolt of the earthquake

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as in staggered

to move forward while swaying from side to side dressed in his zombie costume, the boy lurched down the street in his quest for Halloween candy

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Recent Examples of lurched By 2024 that gap reached 27 points – not because working-class voters lurched toward anti-government extremism, but because mainstream Democrats became dramatically more trusting of government as an instrument of social change. —

Nicholas Jacobs, The Conversation, 2 June 2026 As Aden Kassaye and her mother got out to inspect the damage, Beas Solorio reportedly lurched the BMW forward, making contact with Ayalew’s torso, prompting Ayalew to slam her hands on the BMW’s hood to brace herself and yell at the driver. —

Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 30 May 2026 So between those two things, the balance of gerrymanders has lurched pretty abruptly toward the right. —

Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 15 May 2026 Meanwhile, federal policy has lurched in opposite directions. —

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 15 May 2026 Each assault count corresponds to a moment Mendoza Hernandez’s car lurched forward, about seven seconds apart. —

Scott Lebar. Story Produced With Ai Assistance, Sacbee.com, 7 May 2026 For weeks, the Strait of Hormuz has lurched between open and closed — mostly the latter — depending on the day’s escalation, underscoring how fragile a system built on global fossil fuel chokepoints has become. —

Jennifer Granholm, semafor.com, 30 Apr. 2026 Wembanyama lurched forward, toppled and slammed the right side of his face on the floor. —

Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026 When robots lurched, slipped, and occasionally froze mid-stride at the 2026 Beijing half-marathon on April 19, the internet quickly turned the spectacle into a meme. —

Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 20 Apr. 2026

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Social media video showed dozens of terrified elementary schoolchildren crouching down outdoors as the ground beneath them swayed violently in the province of Davao Occidental.

— Kathleen Magramo, CNN Money, 8 June 2026
Despite losing his job, Pelley successfully derailed their announcement plan for a new 60 Minutes, causing Bilton to play defense and apologize to staff just a week after joining the network and conceding that 60 Minutes would have full editorial independence that could not be swayed.

— Max Tani, semafor.com, 8 June 2026