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 As the opening ceremony began with a flurry of speeches, the bus carrying Team Zambia lurched to a stop by the side of the road in southern Zimbabwe, 200 miles away. —

Ryan Lenora Brown, NPR, 14 June 2026 In a December 2024 crash, a bus lurched onto a sidewalk outside Curley K-8 School in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood. —

Willoughby Mariano, ProPublica, 8 June 2026 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

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Some gold ETFs directly invest in bullion kept in vaults, while others invest in shares of mining companies that tend to follow the price of gold while also being swayed by the companies’ management decisions, efficiency and financials.

— Liz Knueven, CNBC, 12 June 2026
Yet voters weren’t swayed by Steyer’s money, seeing the donation as a rational response by a company deeply invested in California to a candidate who at least acknowledges basic energy reality.

— David Blackmon, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026