Thesaurus results for LURCHED

lurched

verb

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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 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 France lurched from republic to dictatorship to empire before cycling back through absolute monarchy, constitutional monarchy, Second Republic, and Second Empire. —

Sebastian Smee, New Yorker, 4 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 Don’t gag, don’t cry — and my stomach lurched. —

Kate Crane, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2026 Since then, the larger culture has lurched rightward, with big corporations abandoning progressive signaling in favor of…other priorities. —

Alison Herman, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026 Over the course of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s term, CPS has lurched from budget crisis to budget crisis, able only to muddle through due to record-breaking mayoral declarations of tax-increment-financing surpluses. —

The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026

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Ultimately, the bond market is sending a message about the economy, and it isn’t swayed by trendy narratives, Malek said.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 9 May 2026
Trump condemned Roberts and the five other justices who ruled against him on tariffs and made an unsubstantiated claim that the court was swayed by foreign interests.

— Andrew Chung, USA Today, 7 May 2026