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as in swaying
to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions
as their boat seesawed in the rough water, the rescue team tried to get the passengers off the sinking ship
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Recent Examples of seesawing
Hewlett Packard Enterprise emerged as one of the most overbought stocks as the market grappled with seesawing volatility this week.
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Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
6 June 2026
In the midst of seesawing oil prices, reports suggest the project — slated for completion in late 2027 — is well ahead of schedule and already around 50% complete.
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Gaurav Sharma,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
The clearest example of the two companies’ seesawing outlooks is in performance running.
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Sara Germano,
Sportico.com,
29 Apr. 2026
This includes soaring gas prices at the pump, seesawing stock markets, rising food and fertilizer prices, higher shipping-insurance costs, and fuel shortages that have touched off violence, work stoppages, and profiteering in parts of Asia and Africa.
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Sudarsan Raghavan,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2026
Armchair investors have endured several stomach-churning days in March, with the S&P 500 and Dow Jones averages seesawing in response to the Iran war, surging gas prices and inflation fears.
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Daniel De Visé,
USA Today,
10 Mar. 2026
The back-and-forth sent oil prices and stock markets seesawing.
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Samy Magdy,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Mar. 2026
The seesawing decisions by Jones Dickson came during a hearing Monday, when Tran’s trial was expected to get underway with his case being assigned a trial judge.
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Jakob Rodgers,
Mercury News,
2 Mar. 2026
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
6 June 2026
In the midst of seesawing oil prices, reports suggest the project — slated for completion in late 2027 — is well ahead of schedule and already around 50% complete.
—
Gaurav Sharma,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
The clearest example of the two companies’ seesawing outlooks is in performance running.
—
Sara Germano,
Sportico.com,
29 Apr. 2026
This includes soaring gas prices at the pump, seesawing stock markets, rising food and fertilizer prices, higher shipping-insurance costs, and fuel shortages that have touched off violence, work stoppages, and profiteering in parts of Asia and Africa.
—
Sudarsan Raghavan,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2026
Armchair investors have endured several stomach-churning days in March, with the S&P 500 and Dow Jones averages seesawing in response to the Iran war, surging gas prices and inflation fears.
—
Daniel De Visé,
USA Today,
10 Mar. 2026
The back-and-forth sent oil prices and stock markets seesawing.
—
Samy Magdy,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Mar. 2026
The seesawing decisions by Jones Dickson came during a hearing Monday, when Tran’s trial was expected to get underway with his case being assigned a trial judge.
—
Jakob Rodgers,
Mercury News,
2 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seesawing
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The movie is an apex of film noir, filled with dark shadows, moody lighting and ominous swaying palm trees.
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In her two-story home, lamps and other objects began swaying violently.
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Fascinators — those bobbing bundles often of feathers, flowers and netting perched off-center of the wearer’s head — are banned here.
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Producers like Shungu, QThree, Mike Shabb, and Elsesser himself let their legato phrases repeat ad infinitum, gently bobbing like a dinghy in agitated waters.
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The old guard of the Democratic Party suffered another body blow when three socialist congressional candidates in New York with anti-Israel platforms swept to victory, lurching the party even further to the left.
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Taking the ride with Lazy Horse means embracing that chaos, lurching from song to song.
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If successful, QuantumCT would be eligible to receive roughly $160 million over a decade, pumping considerable federal cash into the state’s effort to build out its quantum economy.
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Martín Pérez was on the mound for the home team, a soft-tossing veteran lefty who was pumping in 89-mph sinkers.
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The emphasis is on fun and teamwork, rather than unleashing some sort of psycho Woody Hayes trip on a bunch of kids who are still rocking footy pajamas.
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But other than Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale rocking up as the opposition center forward, this cinematic retelling lacks such unpredictability.
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Right now, that faith is shaking as a wave of cruelty sweeps through our communities.
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With more shaking or churning, these grains grow and separate from the watery, naturally low-fat buttermilk.
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“Seesawing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seesawing. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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